Thunderheart

Thunderheart

Infobox_Film
name=Thunderheart


director=Michael Apted
writer=John Fusco
starring=Val Kilmer
Graham Greene
Sam Shepard
Fred Dalton Thompson
Sheila Tousey
Fred Ward
Dennis Banks
John Trudell
producer=Robert De Niro
John Fusco
Michael Nozik
Jane Rosenthal
distributor=TriStar Pictures
released=April 3, 1992
runtime=119 min
language=English
Lakota
music=James Horner | imdb_id=0105585 |

"Thunderheart" is a 1992 American crime film directed by Michael Apted with Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene, and Fred Ward. Val Kilmer plays an FBI agent with Sioux heritage investigating a murder on a Native American reservation. Graham Greene, a full Oneida Indian from Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, Canada, plays tribal police officer Walter Crow Horse.

Synopsis

The film is a fictionalization based on true events (see Wounded Knee incident), including the rise of the American Indian Movement. In particular, the character Jimmy Looks Twice (played by John Trudell) is modeled on the appearance of native American activist Bob Robideau and the story of Leonard Peltier, who like Jimmy, was sought by the FBI for the murder of two FBI men and was eventually arrested and removed from the reservation. The film gives a very positive reading to the Leonard Peltier story, suggesting not only his innocence with respect to the murders, but also a visionary charisma and a mystical, almost saintlike, acceptance of sacrifice and martyrdom.

Apted was intrigued by the actual events behind the film andalso Pine Ridge Indian Reservation which was known to have the highest per capita murder rate at the time Fact|date=February 2007. Apted also made a documentary about the subject, "Incident at Oglala".

Cast

Awards

"Thunderheart" was nominated for two awards during the 1993 ceremonies.

Political Film Society Awards

Nominations
*Exposé
*Human Rights

ee also

*Incident at Oglala, also directed by Michael Apted.
*Wounded Knee incident

External links

*imdb title|id=0105585|title=Thunderheart


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