Eureka's Masters of Cinema sets out on EASTERN TRAILS: THE WESTERN AT DEFA (review)

While the westerns of West Germany aped the Hollywood and Italian westerns, East Germany's Indianerfilm cycle made the Native Americans the heroes and the white characters villains or sidekicks and made Yugoslavian stuntman Gojko Mitić a superstar.

REVIEW LINK: Eureka Video (U.K.) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

EASTERN TRAILS - THE WESTERN AT DEFA Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One:
• Chingachgook, the Great Serpent:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• German LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Fatal Error: 
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• German LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles 
• "Old West, New Perspective" video essay by Western scholar Jenny Barrett, author of "Shooting the Civil War"
• Disc Two:
• Apaches:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• German LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian Michael Brooke 
• Blood Brothers: 
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• German LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• "Blood Brothers by Dean Reed" optional introduction/musical performance originally attached to theatrical prints of the film 
• "The Singing Cowboy" interview on Dean Reed and "Blood Brothers" with East German cinema expert Seán Allan, co-editor of "Re-Imagining DEFA" 
• Limited edition of 2,000 copies housed in a hardbound slipcase and interior packaging featuring new artwork by Colin Murdoch with a 60-page collector's book featuring part one of a new extended essay on the history of the DEFA Indianerfilme by Lee Broughton, author of "The Euro-Western".