Tom Hanks in Berlin

When Tom Hanks met Günther Reisch to talk about Dean Reed.

Web-Exclusive from "The Red Elvis", the documentary about socialism's biggest superstar Dean Reed. (some german audio!)

TOM HANKS HAS ANNOUNCED TO MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT DEAN REED! This is an excerpt from a private movie by former east-german director Günther Reisch who worked with Dean Reed on his last movie in 1986 (the one about "Wounded Knee"!) Hanks visited him at home to research his project "Comrade Rockstar" in 2004.

"From the Berlin Wall to Siberia -- Dean Reed from Colorado is the biggest star in popmusic. Reed is called the most prominent American after President Ford and Henry Kissinger by Russians and other East-Europeans." (People's Magazine, 1976)

On the 17th of June 1986 a man is dragged out of a lake in the outskirts of East Berlin. He turns out to be the American singer and actor Dean Reed, one of the most mysterious legends of global pop culture during Cold War times. Dean Reed was a good friend of Salvador Allende and Yasser Arafat, throughout the whole world he protested against military regimes and the Vietnam war, he acted in spaghetti westerns in Italy, he was the first US-American to tour across the Soviet Union, he sang country songs on GDR television and posed for photographes in Lebanon with a machine gun in his hand.

As a young man from a small town in Colorado he moved to Hollywood to record a handful of singles. „Our Summer Romance" conquered the charts in South America. Dean Reed was a cowboy and an entertainer, he was admired like a teen idol and a heartthrob, he was a freedom fighter and a rebel, who travelled around the globe with endless energy -- thereby not only challenging his own limits, but also the boundaries of the contemporary map of ideologies. When he moved to the GDR in 1972, Dean Reed was a celebrated star of socialism.

Check
www.theredelvis.com
www.myspace.com/theredelvis
www.deanreed.de

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[Fischkopf46]

oh ich wa doch schon auf der welt xD

nur da konnt ich noch nich richtig denken :-D

das war der 25 januar 2003

[gaggi52]

weshalb soll hanks die finger davon lassen? es gibt doch auch andere kritische filme über das land.

[Hellof7]

Tom Hanks sollte die Finger davon lassen, denn sein Heimatland kommt nicht gut weg dabei.

[blackmii]

lol, Tom Hanks war in Berlin? Der hätte ja mal nen abstecher nach Hessen machen können xD

Um genau zu sein NORD-Hessen xD was solls is lustig!

[Vankrid]

This is Günter Reisch, a East German film director.