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This terrible Karl May in the Wild West; Schneider, Tassilo. "Finding a new Heimat in the Wild West: Karl May and the German Western of the 1960s." Journal of Film and Video (1995): 50–66. in JSTOR; Sammons J. Ideology, nemesis, fantasy: Charles Sealsfield, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Karl May, and other German novelists of America.
The Treasure of the Silver Lake (German: Der Schatz im Silbersee) is a 1962 Western film directed by Harald Reinl, loosely based on German author Karl May's 1891 novel of the same name.
Karl May film adaptations are films based on stories and characters by German author Karl May (1842–1912). The characters Old Shatterhand, Winnetou, and Kara Ben Nemsi are very famous in Central Europe. In most of the film versions the novels were reworked to a great extent, some movies using only the names of characters invented by Karl May.
Several Euro-Western films, nicknamed sauerkraut Westerns [1] because they were made in Germany and shot in Yugoslavia, were derived from stories by novelist Karl May, and were film adaptations of May's work. One of the most popular German Western franchises was the Winnetou series, which featured a Native American Apache hero in the lead role.
The Road to Fort Alamo was produced before the conventions of the Spaghetti Western were established with A Fistful of Dollars. [5] European Westerns had become popular when Germany's Rialto Film bought the rights to Karl May's Western novels, and made several films with director Harald Reinl with his Winnetou series. [1]
Western: a.k.a. Winnetou 2. Based on Karl May. West German-Yugoslav-Italian-French co-production The Last Ride to Santa Cruz: Rolf Olsen: Edmund Purdom, Mario Adorf, Marianne Koch, Klaus Kinski, Sieghardt Rupp: Western: Austrian-West German co-production Late Summer Affair: Peter Beauvais: Karin Baal, Erik Ode: Drama: Legend of a Gunfighter ...
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Karl May is a 1974 West German biographical drama film directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, starring Helmut Käutner as the writer Karl May. It is considered the second part in Syberberg's "German trilogy", preceded by Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King from 1972 and succeeded by Hitler: A Film from Germany from 1977.