Gojko Mitic
Encyclopedia
Gojko Mitić (born June 13, 1940 in Leskovac
, Morava Banovina
, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
) is a Serbia
n director, actor, stuntman, and author. He lives in Berlin
.
He is known for a numerous series of Red Westerns from the GDR DEFA Studios, featuring Native Americans
as the heroes, rather than white settlers as in John Ford
's Westerns. Beginning with The Sons of the Great Mother Bear (1966), Mitić starred in 12 films of this type between 1966 and 1984. In an attempt to move away from his fame based on these Westerns, Mitić in his later career increasingly sought to appear in other genres, on film, on television and on stage. Among other roles he played Spartacus
on stage and presented several TV shows.
He also played the Winnetou
in seasons at the "Karl-May-Festspiele
" until 2006 in Bad Segeberg near Hamburg, Germany. In one episode he played a role at the German television program Schloss Einstein
.
Bulgarian punk rock & ska group Hipodil
has a song 'Bate Goiko' dedicated to and speaking about Gojko Mitić. Neither the song, nor the name of Gojko Mitić is widely known in modern Serbia. Moreover, had Mitić not been the recipient of the Brothers Karić Award in 2010 most of the people in Serbia would have never heard his name. His adult life and career are based in Germany.
Leskovac
Leskovac is a city and municipality in southern Serbia. It is the administrative center of the Jablanica District of Serbia...
, Morava Banovina
Morava Banovina
The Morava Banovina or Morava Banate was a province of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between 1929 and 1941. This province consisted of parts of present-day Central Serbia and it was named for the Morava Rivers...
, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a state stretching from the Western Balkans to Central Europe which existed during the often-tumultuous interwar era of 1918–1941...
) is a Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
n director, actor, stuntman, and author. He lives in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
.
He is known for a numerous series of Red Westerns from the GDR DEFA Studios, featuring Native Americans
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...
as the heroes, rather than white settlers as in John Ford
John Ford
John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...
's Westerns. Beginning with The Sons of the Great Mother Bear (1966), Mitić starred in 12 films of this type between 1966 and 1984. In an attempt to move away from his fame based on these Westerns, Mitić in his later career increasingly sought to appear in other genres, on film, on television and on stage. Among other roles he played Spartacus
Spartacus
Spartacus was a famous leader of the slaves in the Third Servile War, a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic. Little is known about Spartacus beyond the events of the war, and surviving historical accounts are sometimes contradictory and may not always be reliable...
on stage and presented several TV shows.
He also played the Winnetou
Winnetou
Winnetou is a fictional Native American hero of several novels written by Karl May in German, including the sequels Winnetou I through Winnetou IV....
in seasons at the "Karl-May-Festspiele
Karl May
Karl Friedrich May was a popular German writer, noted mainly for adventure novels set in the American Old West, and similar books set in the Orient and Middle East . In addition, he wrote stories set in his native Germany, in China and in South America...
" until 2006 in Bad Segeberg near Hamburg, Germany. In one episode he played a role at the German television program Schloss Einstein
Schloss Einstein
Schloss Einstein is a is a long-running, popular German television program, designed as a teenage soap opera, which describes the life of teenagers in the fictional boarding school Schloss Einstein...
.
Bulgarian punk rock & ska group Hipodil
Hipodil
Hipodil is a Bulgarian rock band, founded 1988 in Sofia by four classmates from the local Mathematics High School. The band describe their music as alco-agro-porno-punk though elements of ska, hard rock and heavy metal are used en masse as well....
has a song 'Bate Goiko' dedicated to and speaking about Gojko Mitić. Neither the song, nor the name of Gojko Mitić is widely known in modern Serbia. Moreover, had Mitić not been the recipient of the Brothers Karić Award in 2010 most of the people in Serbia would have never heard his name. His adult life and career are based in Germany.
External links
- Gojko Mitic's Filmography
- Gojko Mitic at IMDB
- gojkomitic.de (German)
- Biography (German)
- Song about him