Out of Competition


THE THUNDERBIRD WOMAN. WINONA LADUKE
DIE DONNERVOGELFRAU - WINONA LADUKE



Country of production: Germany
Year: 2002
Language: English, Anishinaabe
Mins: 73

Director: Bertram Verhaag
Cinematography: Gerardo Milsztein
Music: Ulali, Floyd Red Crow
Editing: Gabriele Kroeber
Sound: Ralph Beinzeissler
Producer: Bertram Verhaag
Production company: Denkmal Film Ltd.
Bayrischer Rundfunk, ARTE
Source: Bertram Verhaag
Denkmal Film, Ltd.
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80798 Munich
GERMANY
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Fax: +49 89 523 47 42
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Winona LaDuke made international headlines as Ralph Nader's 2000 running mate, but she has been on the social justice frontlines for decades. This powerful movie reveals the life and work of one of the world's most extraordinary women.

Ms. LaDuke is the daughter of a Jewish painter and a Native American stuntman who appeared in Hollywood Westerns, who later became the New Age leader Sun Bear. At seventeen years old, she spoke at the U.N. and studied economics at Harvard. Her Anishinabe heritage spoke to her and shaped her: after college she moved back to the White Earth Reservation near the Minnesota / Dakota border. She became a grassroots social activist, fighting inch-by-inch and detail-by-detail to maintain Native American land and culture. However, she has never been

a primitivist, instead fusing modern technology and ideas with ancient tradition to forge an authentic, self-sustaining, modern Native culture. This movie, and this woman, are an example to us all.

Bertram Verhaag graduated from the College of Film and Television in Munich. In 1976, he formed the production company DENKmal-Film with Claus Strigel. They have worked together on about sixty films for television and cinema.

filmography as director
(selected)
THE THUNDERBIRD WOMAN (2002)
LOS ALAMOS (2001)
BLUE EYED (1996)
MAMA PAPA AUTO (1991)
TATORT FAMILIE (1989)
KLAUFIEBER (1978)

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