Old Shatterhand acquitted

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Movie
Original title Old Shatterhand acquitted
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1965
length 61 minutes
Rod
Director Hans Heinrich
script Hellmut Kotschenreuther
music HF Heddenhausen
Martin Böttcher
Riz Ortolani
camera Günter Knuth
cut Carl Otto Bartning
occupation

Acquittal for Old Shatterhand is a 1965 television film by ZDF with the subtitle A documentary about the trial of Karl May against Rudolf Lebius .

This “semi-documentary” film deals with the trial before the Berlin-Charlottenburg jury on April 12, 1910, when Karl May sued his opponent Rudolf Lebius for insult. Lebius had called him a "born criminal".

Film plot

Lebius brings evidence of May's criminal record during the trial. In flashbacks, May remembers his time in the workhouse and penitentiary and the various crimes with his friend Priegel.

May's lawyer and May himself try to show the "other side": to clarify the causes and psychological reasons that made him a criminal. And they prove that May is purified. May's fantasies in the form of film excerpts from the Karl May films with Lex Barker and Pierre Brice are included .

Scriptwriter's Sources

Hellmut Kotschenreuther used the volume "Ich" , Ludwig Gurlitt's Justice for Karl May! , Arno Schmidt's Sitara and the way there , Paul Schweder's The Great Criminal Trials of the Century and SPIEGEL (cover story Karl the German ) and Rudolf Lebius' Die Zeugen Karl May and Klara May .

The use of the latter work also makes the depiction of the “robber pistols” extremely implausible. May was able to prove that these rip-offs were invented by Louis Krügel (called "Priegel" in the film).

Other contributors

media

In 2018 Pidax released a DVD. As an extra, a reversible cover (without FSK notice) and two trailers for the films Powder Keg and Diamonds (with Liselotte Powder ) and Winnetous Weiber were included.

literature

  • Michael Petzel: Karl May film book. Stories and pictures from the German dream factory , Bamberg / Radebeul: Karl-May-Verlag 1998, 2nd edition 1999.
  • Henning Franke: Colportage. The rediscovered television film "Acquittal for Old Shatterhand" . In: Karl May & Co. No. 152, 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Charles the German . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1962, pp. 54-74 ( online - 12 September 1962 ).
  2. http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Louis_Krügel