A short list of Osterns, Red Westerns and Detective films. Eastern European interpretations of the classical American genre and the legend of the Wild West. Categorically, Osterns were usually set in the backdrop of the Russian civil war using Central Asian landscapes and featuring representions of Native Americans, “Borscht” Westerns were wildly popular in the Eastern Bloc in the mid-late 20th century. Sometimes satirical sometimes decadent, always revisionist, these films are fun to compare to contemporaneous Hollywood and Western European productions of the same genre and an absolute joy to watch✨