The Seattle is a bridging film in Syberberg's ouevre, a color prologue to The Night (1985) that recapitulates themes and approaches from earlier works. A montage of interlinked gestures and movements are given continuity by Edith Clever's recitation of a famous speech by Chief Seattle, the leader of the Duwamish and Suquamish peoples of the Pacific Northwest. As in Karl May (1972), Syberberg uses the mythology and the iconography of the Western to reckon with a divided Germany. With English subtitles.