Striving for Freedom (2013 TV Movie) User Reviews

How is this historical

[shanesclark-189-345463 · 2/10 · 24 February 2019]

It's about Texas n not a Texan in the film lol I'm pretty sure none of the Indians spoke German lol most everything that happened in the movie didn't happen

Entertaining story about German settlers in Texas loosely based on historical facts

[dbellmyer · 8/10 · 30 November 2020]

This is a German made for television movie, so the dialogue is in German with English subtitles, but don't let that put you off; the subtitles are easy to read. This movie tells the story of German immigrants to Texas in the 1840s. The plot uses 3 famous events in Texas history to create the drama and drive the story; they are the Council House Massacre in San Antonio on March 19, 1840, followed by the Comanche Great Raid of 1840, and the Meusebach-Comanche Treaty of May 9, 1847. Although these events are separated by 7 years, in the story, they occur in very close proximity. The main character is Mila, a young weaver woman who travels on an immigrant ship from Prussia (Germany) to Texas with the intention of starting her life anew in a free land. Once she disembarks on the Texas coast, she finds that life in this new frontier is much more than she bargained for when she left Prussia. If you like romance and adventure with a bit of history in the mix, you will enjoy this movie. Emilia Schüle does an admirable job as the passionate and outspoken Mila. Wesley French, a Canadian actor of Chippewa descent, does an excellent job as the intense and determined Comanche chief Buffalo Hump. Benno Fürmann is easy to hate as the twisted Count Arnim von Hohenberg who torments his long suffering wife, Countess von Hohenberg, played by Nadja Uhl. A popular character actor in German films, Gojko Mitic, plays the aged Comanche chief Tahmahkera. Some Amazon reviewers complained that the film does not look like Texas, because there were no mountains in Indianola, the port city on the Gulf of Mexico where German immigrants landed (which no longer exists). Again, it's a minor detail. Many Western films were made in locations that were not geographically correct, so just ignore the minor details, and enjoy the film.

Good western

[suzanneclark · 8/10 · 23 April 2019]

Did enjoy the movie. There are a lot of Germans that settled in Texas and German was spoken predominantly until the 20th century.