Blue Bird

Name: Blue Bird
Director: Ulrich Weiß
Genre: Adventure, Family, Western, Drama
Released: 1979-12-13
Duration: 1 h 37 min
Rating: 4.6
Cast: Robin Jaeger, Gabriel Marian Oseciuc, Jutta Hoffmann, Kurt Böwe, Jan Spitzer

Directed by Ulrich Weiß

19791h 37m4.6

Overview

In the middle of the 18th Century, the Ruster family immigrates to America. The father, a former farm laborer, leads a hard life as a settler along with his family. One day the nine year-old George, his second-youngest son, is kidnapped by Iroquois. He is taken in by an Indian family in the place of a deceased son and receives the name "Blue Bird." The boy has homesickness and difficulties accustoming to the customs of the Indians.