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This list of Euro-Western films includes Western-genre films made in Europe by non-Italian production companies, although the term Euro-Western can sometimes include the Italian-produced spaghetti Western subgenre.
Several Euro-Western films, nicknamed sauerkraut Westerns[1] because they were made in Germany and shot in Yugoslavia, were derived from stories by novelist Karl May, and were film adaptations of May's work. One of the most popular German Western franchises was the Winnetou series, which featured a Native American Apache hero in the lead role.
Some new Euro-Westerns emerged in the 2010s, including: Kristian Levring's The Salvation, Martin Koolhoven's Brimstone and Andreas Prochaska's The Dark Valley.
List by release date
edit| Title | Director | Summary | Released | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-1964 | ||||||
| Riffle Bill, le roi de la prairie | Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset | French production. Silent Western in black-and-white. 5 episodes. | 1908 (France) | |||
| Der Kaiser von Kalifornien/The Emperor of California | Luis Trenker | Nazi Germany production. Western in black-and-white. | 1936 (Nazi Germany) | |||
| The Coyote/El Coyote | Joaquin Luis Romero Marchent/Fernando Soler | Mexican/Spanish production. Western in black-and-white. | 5 May 1955 (Spanish) | El Coyote film | ||
| Villi Pohjola | Aarne Tarkas | Finnish production. Western in black-and-white | 30 September 1955 (Finland) | |||
| The Coyote's Justice/La Justicia del Coyote | Joaquin Luis Romero Marchent | Mexican/Spanish production. Western in black-and-white. It was a sequel to the 1955 film The Coyote. | 8 March 1956 (Spanish) | El Coyote film | ||
| Juanito/3 Kerle geh'n durch dick und dünn | Fernando Palacios | Spanish/Argentine/West German production. | 16 March 1960 (West Germany) | |||
| Taste of Violence/Le goût de la violence/Haut für Haut/Febbre di rivolta | Robert Hossein | French/West German/Italian production in black-and-white. Perez (Robert Hossein) kidnaps the President's daughter (Giovanna Ralli), to trade her for imprisoned revolutionaries. | 11 August 1961 (West Germany) | |||
| Savage Guns/Tierra brutal | Michael Carreras | United Kingdom/Spanish production. Gunfighter Steve Fallon (Richard Basehart) befriends pacifist farmer Summers (Don Taylor), who is threatened by big landowner Ortega (José Nieto) and his hired gun, Danny (Alex Nicol). | 1 November 1961 (Spain) | |||
| Dynamite Jack/Il terrore del Texas | Jean Bastia | French/Italian production. Western comedy featuring Fernandel. | 3 November 1961 (France) | |||
| Torrejón City | León Klimovsky | Spanish production | 30 October 1962 (Spain) | |||
| Treasure of the Silver Lake/Der Schatz im Silbersee/Blago u srebrnom jezeru | Harald Reinl | West German/Yugoslavian production. | 14 December 1962 (West Germany) | The first entry in the Winnetou series. | ||
| Gold of the wild North/Villin Pohjolan kulta | Aarne Tarkas | Finnish production | 1 February 1963 (Finland) | Sequel to 'Villi Pohjola' (1955) | ||
| The Pirates of the Mississippi/Die Flußpiraten vom Mississippi/Les pirates sur Mississippi/Agguato sul grande fiume | Jürgen Roland | West German/French/Italian production. Based on a novel by Friedrich Gerstäcker | 18 October 1963 (West Germany) | |||
| Villin Pohjolan salattu laakso | Aarne Tarkas | Finnish production | 8 November 1963 (Finland) | Sequel to 'Villi Pohjola' (1955) | ||
| Apache Gold/Winnetou 1/La révolte des indiens Apache/La valle dei lunghi coltelli/Vinetu 1 | Harald Reinl | West German/French/Italian/Yugoslavian production. Winnetou (Pierre Brice) and his blood brother, Old Shatterhand (Lex Barker), defend the Apache lands from gold hunters. | 11 December 1963 (West Germany) | Awards: Goldene Leinwand. Part of the Winnetou series. | ||
| 1964 | ||||||
| Wild West story | Börje Nyberg | Swedish production. Comedy Western, featuring Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt. | 15 February 1964 (Sweden) | |||
| The last ride to Santa Cruz/Der Letzte Ritt nach Santa Cruz | Rolf Olsen | West German/Austrian production. | 28 March 1964 (West Germany) | |||
| Gunfighters of Casa Grande/Los pistoleros de Casa Grande | Roy Rowland | USA/Spanish production. Bank robber Joe Daylight (Alex Nicol) acquires a Mexican hacienda and helps the other hacienda owners fight bandit El Rojo (Aldo Sambrell). Daylight's secret plan is to rustle their cattle himself, but he meets resistance among his own men, especially from "Traveller" (Jorge Mistral). | 1 April 1964 (Spain) | |||
| Old Shatterhand/Les cavaliers rouges/La battaglia di Fort Apache/Old Seterhend | Hugo Fregonese | West German/French/Italian/Yugoslavian production. | 30 April 1964 (West Germany) | Part of the Winnetou series. | ||
| Cavalry Charge/La carga de la policia montada | Ramòn Torrado | Spanish production | 4 June 1964 (Spain) | |||
| Relevo para un pistolero | 29 June 1964 (Spain) | |||||
| Billy the Kid/Fuera de la ley | León Klimovsky | 9 July 1964 (Spain) | ||||
| Black angel of the Mississippi/¡Bienvenido, padre Murray! | Ramón Torrado | 24 August 1964 (Spain) | ||||
| Lemonade Joe/Limonádový Joe aneb Koňská opera | Oldřich Lipský | Czechoslovakian production. Comedy Western | 28 August 1964 (East Germany) | |||
| Freddy in the Wild West/The Sheriff Was a Lady/Freddy und das Lied der Prärie/6 pallottole per Ringo Kid | Sobey Martin | West German/Yugoslavian production, featuring the singer Freddy Quinn. | 28 August 1964 (West Germany) | |||
| Last of the Renegades/Winnetou 2/Le trésor des montagnes bleus/Giorni de fuco/Vinetu 2 | Harald Reinl | West German/French/Italian/Yugoslavian production. | 17 September 1964 (West Germany) | Part of the Winnetou series. | ||
| Massacre at Marble City/Die Goldsucher von Arkansas/Alla conquista dell'Arkansas/Les chercheurs d'or de l'Arkansas | Paul Martin | West German/Italian/French production. Based on a novel by Friedrich Gerstäcker | 20 November 1964 (West Germany) | |||
| Tomb of the Pistolero/La tumba del pistolero/Attento Gringo... ora si spara | Amando de Ossorio | Spanish production | 21 November 1964 (Spain) | |||
| Legend of a Gunfighter/Heiss weht der Wind/Mein Freund Shorty | Rolf Olsen | West German/Austrian production. | 26 November 1964 (West Germany) | |||
| Among Vultures/Unter Geiern/Là dove scende il sole/Parmi les vautours/Medu jastrebovima | Alfred Vohrer | West German/Italian/French/Yugoslavian production. | 8 December 1964 (West Germany) | Part of the Winnetou series. | ||
| 1965 | ||||||
| Murieta/Joaquín Murrieta | George Sherman | Spanish production. With Jeffrey Hunter as Joaquin Murrieta | 1 February 1965 (Spain) | |||
| Treasure of the Aztecs/Der Schatz der Azteken/I violenti di Rio Bravo/Les mercenaires du Rio Grande/Blago Acteka | Robert Siodmak | West German/Italian/French/Yugoslavian production, based on a book by Karl May. | 4 March 1965 (West Germany) | |||
| Black eagle of Santa Fe/Die Schwarzen Adler von Santa Fe/I gringos non perdonano/Les aigles noirs de Santa-Fe | Alberto Cardone/Ernst Hofbauer | West German/Italian/French production. | 12 March 1965 (West Germany) | |||
| Man called Gringo/Sie nannten ihn Gringo/La ley del forastero | Roy Rowland | West German/Spanish production. | 19 March 1965 (West Germany) | |||
| The Last Tomahawk/Der letzte Mohikaner/La valle della ombre rosse/El utimo mohicano | Harald Reinl | West German/Italian/Spanish production. Based on The Last of the Mohicans, but set more than 100 years later | 17 April 1965 (West Germany) | |||
| The bandits of the Rio Grande/Die Banditen vom Rio Grande | Helmuth M. Backhaus | West German production | 24 April 1965 (Italy) | |||
| Shoot to Kill/Los cuateros | Ramón Torrado | Spanish production | 24 May 1965 (Spain) | |||
| Massacre at Fort Grant/Fuerte perdido | José María Elorrieta | Spanish production. After a US Army fort has been sacked by Apaches, the settler Paul Driscoll (German Cobos) is court-martialed for treason. | 31 May 1965 (Spain) | |||
| The Hell of Manitoba/A Place Called Glory/Die Hölle von Manitoba/Un lugar llamando "Glory" | Sheldon Reynolds | West German/Spanish production. | 27 July 1965 (West Germany) | |||
| Son of a Gunfighter/El Hijo del Pistolero | Paul Landres | USA/Spanish production. | 16 August 1965 (United Kingdom) | |||
| Legacy of the Incas/Das Vermächtnis des Inka/Viva Gringo/El ultiomo rey de los incas | Georg Marischka | West Germany/Italian/Spanish/Bulgarian production, based on a book by Karl May | 24 August 1965 (West Germany) | |||
| The Oil Prince/Der Ölprinz/Kralj petroleja | Harald Philipp | West German/Yugoslavian production. | 25 August 1965 (West Germany) | Part of the Winnetou series. | ||
| Duel at Sundown/Duell vor Sonnenuntergang/Sparate a vista su Killer Kid | Leopold Lahola | West German/Italian/Yugoslavian production. | 17 September 1965 (West Germany) | |||
| Jessy does not forgive... He kills!/Sunscorched/Tierra de fuego/Land des Feuers | Jaime Jesús Balcázar | Spanish/West German production. | 1 October 1965 (West Germany) | |||
| The Desperado Trail/Winnetou 3/Vinetu 3 | Harald Reinl | West German/Italian/Yugoslavian production. | 14 October 1965 (West Germany) | Part of the Winnetou series. | ||
| Carry On, Cowboy | Gerald Thomas | United Kingdom production | 6 November 1965 (United Kingdom) | |||
| Old Surehand/Old Surehand 1. Teil/Lavirint smrti | Alfred Vohrer | West German/Yugoslavian production. | 14 December 1965 (West Germany) | Part of the Winnetou series. | ||
| Django the Condemned/El proscrito del Rio Colorado | Maury Dexter | Spanish production. | 22 December 1965 (Spain) | |||
| 1966 | ||||||
| Count Bobby, the terror of the wild West/Graf Bobby, der Schrecken des wilden Westens | Paul Martin | Austrian/Yugoslavian production. Western comedy. | 5 January 1966 (West Germany) | Vehicle for singer Peter Alexander | ||
| The sons of Great Bear/Die Söhne der großen Bärin | Josef Mach | East German/Yugoslavian production. | 18 February 1966 (East Germany) | East German Red Western | ||
| Who killed Johnny R.?/Wer kennt Johnny R.?/La balada de Johnny Ringo | José Luis Madrid | West German/Spanish production. | 19 May 1966 (West Germany) | |||
| Savage Pampas/Pampa Salvaje | Hugo Fregonese | USA/Spanish/Argentine production. | 29 July 1966 (West Germany) | |||
| Winnetou and the Crossbreed/Winnetou und das Halbblut Apanatschi/Il giorno più lungo di Kansas City | Harald Philipp | West German/Italian/Yugoslavian production. | 17 August 1966 (West Germany) | Part of the Winnetou series. | ||
| The Trap | Sidney Hayers | United Kingdom productions | 15 September 1966 (United Kingdom) | |||
| Two thousand dollars for Coyote/Dos mil dòlares por Coyote/Django... cacciatore di taglia | Leòn Klimovsky | Spanish production | 7 October 1966 (Spain) | |||
| Django does not forgive/Mestizio | Julio Buchs | |||||
| Winnetou and Old Firehand/Thunder at the Border/Winnetou und sein Freund Old Firehand/Vinetu i Old Fajerhend | Alfred Vohrer | West German/Yugoslavian production. | 13 December 1966 (West Germany) | Part of the Winnetou series. | ||
| 1967 | ||||||
| Seven for Pancho Villa/Los 7 de Pancho Villa | José María Elorrieta | Spanish production | 2 March 1967 (Spain) | |||
| Christmas Kid/Joe Navidad | Sidney W. Pink | USA/Spanish production. | 1 July 1967 (USA) | |||
| Chingachgook, die große Schlange | Richard Groschopp | East German production | 29 December 1967 (East Germany) | East German Red Western | ||
| 1968 | ||||||
| Spur des Falken | Gottfried Kolditz | East German/Soviet Union production. | 22 June 1968 (East Germany) | East German Red Western | ||
| Shalako/Man nennt mich Shalako | Edward Dmytryk | United Kingdom/West German production. A hunting party of European aristocrats trespasses into Apache territory, with dire consequences. Shalako (Sean Connery) has a hard time rescuing survivors, but he does win the favor of a countess (Brigitte Bardot). | 26 September 1968 (West Germany) | |||
| Secret of Captain O'Hara/El secreto del capitán O'Hara | Arturo Ruiz Castillo | Spanish production | 22 October 1968 (Spain) | |||
| The Valley of Death/Winnetou und Shatterhand im Tal der Toten/L'uomo dal lungo fucile/Vinetu u dolini smrti | Harald Reinl | West German/Italian/Yugoslavian production. | 12 December 1968 (West Germany) | Part of the Winnetou series. | ||
| White Comanche/Comanche blanco | José Briz Méndez | Spanish production. Johnny Moon (William Shatner) is frequently mistaken for his twin brother, who leads Comanche raids. Johnny challenges him to a fight to the death and also gets involved in conflicts in a Western town. | 23 December 1968 (Spain) | |||
| Love and Blood/Agapi kai aima | Nikos Foskolos | Greek production | 24 December 1968 (Greece) | |||
| The last of the Mohicans/Ultimul Mohican/Die Lederstrumpferzählungen: Der letzte Mohikaner | Jean Dréville/Pierre Gaspard-Huit/Sergiu Nicolaescu | Romanian/French/West German production. | 31 December 1968 (Romania) | |||
| 1969 | ||||||
| Weiße Wölfe/Bijeli vukovi | Konrad Petzold/Boško Boškovič | East German/Yugoslavian production. | 25 June 1969 (East Germany) | East German Red Western | ||
| Twenty Thousand Dollars for Every Corpse/20.000 dòlares por un cadavers | José Maria Zabalza | Spanish production. An Anglo-only story of a rancher, who gets into trouble with an outlaw gang brought in, to stop the construction of a railroad. | 6 December 1969 (Spain) | |||
| 1970 | ||||||
| Tumba para un forajido | José Luis Madrid | Spanish production | 9 April 1970 (Italy) | |||
| Fatal Error/Tödlicher Irrtum | Konrad Petzold | East German production | 3 July 1970 (East Germany) | East German Red Western | ||
| Wind from the East/Le Vent d'est/Vento dell'Est/Ostwind | Jean-Luc Godard/Jean-Pierre Gorin | French/Italian/West German production. | 19 August 1970 (France) | |||
| Tough Guys of the Prairie/Præriens skrappe drenge | Carl Ottosen | Danish production. Featuring Danish comedian Dirch Passer. | 31 August 1970 (Denmark) | Followed by Gold for the Tough Guys of the Prairie. | ||
| Deadlock/Duello a tre | Roland Klick | West German production. A man, called 'Kid' (Marquard Bohm), wanders through the desert exhausted; he carries a suitcase. His arm is bleeding from a gunshot. Finally passing out from the heat and blood loss, he lays prone, until Charles Dump (Mario Adorf), a loner living in the shell of an abandoned mining camp, finds him passed out in the middle of nowhere. Dump checks the man's luggage and finds it filled with millions of dollars... (also Anthony Dawson, Mascha Rabben, Betty Segal). | 15 October 1970 (West Germany) | shot in the Negev Desert, Israel | ||
| Plomo sobre Dallas | José Maria Zabalza | Spanish production | 24 December 1970 (Spain) | |||
| 1971 | ||||||
| Osceola | Konrad Petzold | East German/Bulgarian/Cuban production. | 26 June 1971 (East Germany) | East German Red Western | ||
| The Unhanged/Hirttämättömät | Spede Pasanen/Vesa-Matti Loiri | Finnish production. Comedy Western. | 27 August 1971 (Finland) | |||
| Gold for the Tough Guys of the Prairie/Guld til præriens skrappe drenge | Finn Karlsson | Danish production. Featuring Danish comedian Dirch Passer. | 30 August 1971 (Denmark) | Sequel to Tough Guys of the Prairie. | ||
| Hannie Caulder | Burt Kennedy | United Kingdom production | 8 November 1971 (United Kingdom) | |||
| Four Rode Out/Cuatro cabalgaron | John Peyser | USA/Spanish production. | 11 December 1971 (Spain) | |||
| A Girl is a Gun/Une aventure de Billy le Kid | Luc Moullet | French production | 27 December 1971 | Never released in France, but shown abroad in an English-dubbed version. | ||
| 1972 | ||||||
| Vente a ligar al Oeste | Pedro Lazaga | Spanish production | 24 January 1972 (Spain) | |||
| Chato's land | Michael Winner | United Kingdom production | 1 April 1972 (United Kingdom) | |||
| Tecumseh | Hans Kratzert | East German production | 1 July 1972 (East Germany) | East German Red Western | ||
| Cut-Throats Nine/Condenados a vivir | Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent | Spanish production. US Cavalrymen are killed while escorting a group of convicts to prison. The survivors, Sergeant Brown (Robert Hundar) and his daughter (Emma Cohen), are forced to escort the prisoners across the Rocky Mountains by foot. | 10 July 1972 (Spain) | |||
| Cry of the Black Wolves/Der Schrei der schwarzen Wölfe | Harald Reinl | West German production | 4 October 1972 (West Germany) | Based on a novel by Jack London. | ||
| Pancho Villa/El desafio de Pancho Villa | Eugenio Martín | Spanish/United Kingdom/USA production. After being double-crossed in an arms deal, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa (Telly Savalas) together with arms dealer Scotty (Clint Walker) raid a US Army weapons depot, in retaliation. | 31 October 1972 (West Germany) | |||
| The Call of the Wild/Ruf der Wildnis/La selva blanca/Il richiamo della foresta/L'appel de la forêt | Ken Annakin | United Kingdom/West German/Spanish/Italian/French production. | 29 December 1972 (West Germany) | Based on a novel by Jack London. | ||
| The Headless Rider/Vsadnik bez golovy | Vladimir Vajnshtok | Soviet Union/Cuban production. | 30 December 1972 (Soviet Union) | Based on a novel by Thomas Mayne Reid. | ||
| 1973 | ||||||
| Fat brothers of Trinity/Ninguno de los tres llamaba Trinidad | Pedro Luis Ramirez | Spanish production | 10 January 1973 (Italy) | |||
| Dust in the Sun/Dans la poussière du soleil | Richard Balducci | French/Spanish production. Joe Bradford (Bob Cunningham) has his brother whipped to death and marries his widow (Maria Schell). Hawk (Daniel Beretta), the son of the victim, pretends to be deaf, mute and mentally disturbed. Based on William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'. | 28 March 1973 (France) | |||
| Charley One-Eye | Don Chaffey | USA/United Kingdom production. | 18 April 1973 | |||
| Far West | Jacques Brel | French/Belgian production. | 31 May 1973 (France) | |||
| Apaches/Apachen | Gottfried Kolditz | East German production | 29 June 1973 (East Germany) | East German Red Western | ||
| Yankee Dudler/Verflucht, dies Amerika/La banda de Jaider | Volker Vogeler | West German/Spanish production. | 7 September 1973 (West Germany) | |||
| The bloody vultures of Alaska/Hell Hounds of Alaska/Die blutigen Geier von Alaska/Krvavi jastrebovi Aljaske | Harald Reinl | West German/Yugoslavian production. | 16 October 1973 (West Germany) | |||
| Scalawag/Un magnifico ceffo di galera/Protuva | Kirk Douglas | USA/Italian/Yugoslavian production. | 14 November 1973 (USA) | |||
| Ay, Ay, Sheriff | Rolf Olsen | West German production | 24 December 1973 (Italy) | |||
| Tschetan, der Indianerjunge | Hark Bohm | 29 December 1973 (West Germany) | ||||
| 1974 | ||||||
| Ulzana | Gottfried Kolditz | East German/Romanian/Soviet Union production. | 16 May 1974 (East Germany) | East German Red Western | ||
| Long ride to Eden/Ein langer Ritt nach Eden | Günter Hendel | West German production | 2 August 1974 (West Germany) | |||
| Kit & Co | Konrad Petzold | East German/Soviet Union production. | 15 December 1974 (East Germany) | |||
| Convoy of Women/Convoi des femmes | Pierre Chevalier | French/Italian production. | 16 December 1974 | Sexploitation Western | ||
| Gunfight at OQ Corral/Règlement de comptes à O.Q. Corral | Jean-Marie Pallardy | French production | 22 December 1974 (France) | |||
| 1975 | ||||||
| Girls of the Golden Saloon/Les Filles du Golden Saloon | Gilbert Roussel | French/Belgian production. | 23 May 1975 (France) | Sexploitation Western | ||
| Valley of the Dancing Widows/Das Tal der tanzenden Witwen/El valle de las viudas | Volker Vogeler | West German/Spanish production. | 23 May 1975 (West Germany) | |||
| Dead Man's Trail/I död mans spår | Mats Helge | Swedish production | 2 June 1975 (Sweden) | |||
| Blood Brothers/Blutsbrüder | Werner W. Wallroth | East German production | 26 June 1975 (East Germany) | East German Red Western | ||
| If You Shoot... You Live!/Si quieres vivir... dispara | José María Elorrieta | Spanish production | 1975 (Spain) | |||
| 1976 | ||||||
| Montana Trap/Potato Fritz | Peter Schamoni | West German production. | 6 May 1976 (West Germany) | |||
| Trini | Walter Beck | East German production. | 14 December 1976 (East Germany) | East German Red Western | ||
| 1977 | ||||||
| Welcome to Blood City | Peter Sasdy | United Kingdom/Canadian production. | 23 August 1977 (Canada) | |||
| Another Man, Another Chance/Un autre homme, une autre chance | Claude Lelouch | USA/French production. | 28 September 1977 (France) | |||
| Armed and Dangerous/Vooruzhyon i ochen opasen | Vladimir Vajnshtok | Soviet Union/Czechoslovakian/Romanian production. | 1977 (Soviet Union) | Based on short stories by Bret Harte | ||
| The prophet, the gold and the Transylvanians/Profetul, aurul şi ardelenii | Dan Pița | Romanian production | 1977 (Romania) | |||
| 1978 | ||||||
| Lost gold of the Incas/Das Verschollene Inka-Gold/L'or des Incas/Omul de aur | Wolfgang Staudte | West German/French/Romanian production. | 6 May 1978 (West Germany) | |||
| Severino | Claus Dobberke | East German production | 30 June 1978 (East Germany) | East German | ||
| Eagle's Wing | Anthony Harvey | United Kingdom production | 23 November 1978 (Finland) | |||
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Brookeman, Christopher (1993). The BFI Companion to the Western. A. Deutsch. p. 118.
Further reading
edit- Frayling, Christopher. Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone. London: Routledge & Keagan Paul, 1981. ISBN 0-7100-0503-2
- Hughes, Howard. Once Upon a Time in the Italian West: The Filmgoers' Guide to Spaghetti Westerns. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2006. ISBN 1-85043-896-X
- Riling, Yngve P, The Spaghetti Western Bible. Limited Edition. (Riling, 2011).
- Weisser, Thomas. Spaghetti Westerns: The Good, The Bad, and The Violent: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography of 558 Eurowesterns and Their Personnel, 1961–1977. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 1992. ISBN 0-89950-688-7
External links
edit- "Euro-Western" Movies (by Release Date), a comprehensive listing by the Internet Movie Database
- Online Database of European Westerns, a MediaWiki-powered encyclopedia of the Spaghetti Western