With Karl May in the Orient
| Television series | |
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| Original title | With Karl May in the Orient |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| year | 1963 |
| length | 28 minutes |
| Episodes | 7th |
| genre | adventure |
| Director | Francesco Stefani |
| idea | Winfried Schnitzler |
| production | Arthur Cohn |
| music | Boris Jojić |
| First broadcast | October 2, 1963 on ZDF |
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With Karl May im Orient is the title of a seven-part television series based on novel motifs from the works of Karl May , which was broadcast in 1963 by the German broadcaster ZDF .
Television series
Motives and episodes
In the series motifs from the oriental cycle “Through the Desert”, “Through the Wild Kurdistan”, “From Baghdad to Stambul”, “In the Gorges of the Balkans”, “Through the Land of the Skipetars” and “The Schut” were processed.
The seven episodes were given the titles:
- Kara Ben Nemsi
- Death in the swamp
- The rose of Kbili
- The dead City
- The beggar's secret
- The wrong Hakim
- The father of the saber
Origin and charisma
Based on a screenplay by Winfried Schnitzler, director Francesco Stefani shot with a modest budget on locations in Yugoslavia in 1961, even before many of the Karl May films of the 1960s were made there. Production was headed by the later Oscar winner Arthur Cohn (“ Der Garten der Finzi Contini ”, 1970). The series parts were shot on 35 mm film .
The circumstances surrounding the creation and broadcasting of the series are poorly documented and sometimes contradicting one another.
After the ban on privately financed Germany television , the commissioning company was liquidated. The television premiere of the first part, "Kara Ben Nemsi", took place during the ZDF test program at the radio exhibition in Berlin on October 2, 1963. Actually, 13 episodes were planned for the series. The response and criticism from viewers to the episodes broadcast in the experimental program was so catastrophic that the ZDF refrained from producing further episodes as well as repeating the series in the later regular broadcasting operations. The episodes filmed disappeared in the archive.
The first two episodes of the series experienced a kind of “world premiere” when they were performed on April 2, 2000 in the Stern Theater in Göttingen .
The seventh episode ("The Father of the Saber"), the origins of which are unclear, was only added to the 2013 DVD. It is possible that the season was originally calculated to have 6 episodes, but then on average (with extensive repetition of the last shots of the previous episode) it was stretched to 7 episodes in order to achieve the usual duration.
actor
The actors included as Kara Ben Nemsi Harry Walther, known from Karl May performances in Bad Segeberg, and as Hajji Halef Omar Osman Ragheb , who later dubbed the role of Chief Listiger Lurch in the parody " Der Schuh des Manitu " .
background
“The shooting of the production, which has a modest budget, took place in Yugoslavia in 1961, before the start of the great Karl May wave . The location was the area around Obrovac , where large parts of the Karl May cinema films were later made. Harry Walther, Old Shatterhand actor of the Segeberger Karl May Festival , played Kara Ben Nemsi in a group of largely unknown actors . The name of Tihomir Piletić stands out on the Yugoslav staff. He was assistant to Vladimir Tadej , the architect of many Karl May films. Boris Jojić, the composer, later took care of the arrangements for DURCHS WILDE KURDISTAN . Six of the planned 13 episodes were shot, then production was stopped.
After the surprising end of the FFG , the program supplies went to the young ZDF . Some episodes of the six-part ORIENT series were shown as part of the ZDF test program at the 1963 radio exhibition in Berlin. However, the quality of the films was so poor, even for the conditions at the time, that they were not broadcast regularly. "
literature
- Karl-Heinz Becker: Colorless Orient. Withered stalk on Karl May's film and TV prairie . In: Karl May & Co. No. 134/2013.
- Michael Petzel: Karl-May-Filmbuch , Bamberg / Radebeul: Karl-May-Verlag 1999 (2nd edition).
Web links
- Mit Karl May im Orient in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Entry at Karl-May-Filme.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/artist/639876-Boris-Jojić
- ↑ "Six of the planned 13 episodes were shot, then production was stopped." (Petzel: Karl-May-Filmbuch , 1999, p. 406)
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Mit_Karl_May_im_Orient_(Serie)
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-filme.de/fern/tv-01.html
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0683389/
- ↑ Michael Petzel: Karl-May-Filmbuch , Bamberg / Radebeul: Karl-May-Verlag 1999 (2nd edition), p. 406.