Winnetou 1st part
Winnetou Part 1 is a movie based on the novel of the same name by Karl May ( Karl May Film ) directed by Harald Reinl . The leading roles are cast with Lex Barker and Pierre Brice as well as Mario Adorf , Marie Versini and Ralf Wolter .
The premiere of the film took place on December 11, 1963. The costumes were designs by Irms Pauli .
action
The young Apache warrior Black Eagle is supposed to get some gold pieces from Mount Nugget-tsil for his tribe. He falls into the hands of the bandit Santer and his team, who tortures him to find out where the gold comes from. Since the Black Eagle is silent and unruly, one of Santer's companions shoots the Indian.
Chief's son Winnetou observes that, against all agreements, a railway line is being built through the Apache region. A German surveyor , who is also called Old Shatterhand because of his fast, hard fist , had measured the corresponding section of the route for the Great Western Railway in such a way that it leads around the Apache area in a semicircle . Therefore, he is commissioned by Chief Engineer Winter in Chicago to monitor compliance with the general plan.
With a supply trek from El Paso, Old Shatterhand moves to the railway camp . The Scouts Sam Hawken, Dick Stone and Will Parker join the move. The Kiowas , who are in league with Santer, attack the wagon train, but are driven away.
Old Shatterhand uncovered fraudulent machinations by contractor Bancroft at the railroad workers' camp. The and his partner Santer want to save several hundred thousand dollars in construction costs by straightening the route and secretly pocket themselves. Old Shatterhand confronts surveyor Bill Jones, who in good faith marks out the track according to the plan forged by Bancroft, even though it illegally leads through the Apache area. The Great Western had guaranteed not to violate the Apache hunting grounds unless they agreed with the Indians on technical difficulties.
However, as a surveyor, Old Shatterhand knows that there are no such technical difficulties in this section. He instructs Jones to move all of the material to the originally planned route when Winnetou and the white Apache advisor, Klekih-petra, appear. While Old Shatterhand is negotiating with them, Santer suddenly appears with his men. He shoots Klekih-petra, takes Winnetou prisoner and delivers him to the Kiowas, the Apache's mortal enemies. During the night, Old Shatterhand succeeds in cutting Winnetou from the Kiowas stake. He doesn’t reveal himself, but takes Winnetou’s amulet, a chain with a grizzly bear claw.
Old Shatterhand and the railway workers are now moving to Roswell, a newly established place on the railway line, where Santer and his people have barricaded themselves in the saloon. After a loss-making shootout, the saloon can finally be stormed with the help of a diverted locomotive, but the Apaches appear to avenge the death of Klekih-petras. Roswell is destroyed, Old Shatterhand is seriously injured by Winnetou in combat and taken to the Indian settlement with Hawkens, Stone and Parker .
The seriously injured Old Shatterhand is nursed to health by the chief's daughter Nscho-chi before he and his companions are supposed to die on the torture stake. Old Shatterhand now reveals himself to be the savior of Winnetou from the hand of the Kiowas, but cannot prove this because his jacket with the amulet is left behind in Roswell. That is why a judgment of God should decide. In a life and death fight with the chief Intschu-chuna, Old Shatterhand wins, but spares his life. In addition, Nscho-tschi found Old Shatterhand's jacket in Roswell and can present the amulet as evidence. Old Shatterhand then becomes Winnetou's blood brother .
Winnetou's sister Nscho-chi fell in love with him while caring for the injured Old Shatterhand. The young woman wants to move to St. Louis to learn the language and customs of white people . She wants to get the necessary funds from the Apache gold treasure on Nugget-tsil. You finally set out with a group of Apache warriors.
Since only the chief family should have access to the gold, Intschu-chuna and his children separate from Old Shatterhand and the Apaches for a short time. Santer lies in wait with his men in the group of three, shoots Intschu-chuna and also hits Nscho-chi. But Old Shatterhand has discovered the trace of Santer's gang and comes to the rescue with the warriors Winnetou and his sister. The bandits are killed. The shot Santer hangs on a cliff, from which he eventually falls to his death. The badly injured Nscho-chi dies. Winnetou assures his blood brother that she loved him, to which Old Shatterhand replies that he too loved Nscho-chi and that she will never be forgotten. Winnetou becomes the new chief of the Apaches and inherits his father's famous silver box.
background
After the great success of Der Schatz im Silbersee , Harald G. Petersson submitted a 24-page synopsis of the planned new film Winnetou Part 1 on January 17, 1963 . He stayed relatively close to the novel, but instead of the bandit Rattler Winnetou's arch enemy Santer, who, as in the novel, would initially survive and only perish in Winnetou 3rd part .
On April 1, 1963, a script review was held at Constantin Film under the direction of chief dramaturge Gerhard F. Hummel . He made numerous changes to the script. The town of Tascona was now Roswell, and the Kiowas, the covered wagon robbery and the locomotive saloon scene were also introduced. Santer should be killed by the end of this film. In the first week of June 1963 the final script was ready. Filming began on July 1, 1963. The headquarters of the film crew was in the Hotel Zagreb in the city of Zadar . The characteristic peak Tulove Grede in Velebit was chosen as “Nugget Tsil” . Right at the beginning, Nscho-chi's death scene was filmed there. For Santer's last scene, Mario Adorf was hung from a rock with a steel cable passed through his sleeve and a fire department belt. Cameraman Kalinke and his camera were also leashed for this scene.
The railway camp with the railway line was built at the foot of the mountain. On a plateau above the river Zrmanja , architect Vladimir Tadej built the Apache pueblo, which only consisted of a front view. The view of the Zrmanja (called “ Rio Pecos ” in the film ) became a characteristic motif of the Winneto films . In the river, director Harald Reinl let the fight between Old Shatterhand and Intschu-tschuna take place. The recordings were made from a raft that was pulled by a motorboat in front of the opponents' canoes. The underwater recordings were also shot at the original location. All night shots were taken with the help of a filter on a bright day ( day-for-night or American night ).
The western town of Roswell was built near the village of Zecevo on the railway line from Zadar to Knin . The film team has now taken up residence in the Jadran Hotel in the coastal town of Šibenik . One of the highlights of the film is the total destruction of a western saloon by a real locomotive. For this purpose, a junction several hundred meters long from the railway line had been built. A further complicating factor during the shooting was that this scene could only be shot once, because after that the saloon was completely destroyed and the film crew ran out of time. The scene succeeded, Erwin Lange lit the explosion effectively when the locomotive broke into the saloon.
The romantic scenes between Old Shatterhand and Nscho-chi took place at the Krka Falls near Skradin . Not far away, near the town of Knin , the meeting between Santer and the Black Eagle took place in a basin.
The film team was last in Rijeka . At Grobnik Polje, where Butler's farm from The Treasure in Silbersee was already located , the attack by the Kiowas on the covered wagon was filmed. During the filming, several covered wagons moving in parallel were pulled by trucks. Unexpectedly, one met a film team around Jürgen Roland who was shooting The River Pirates from Mississippi . When the powder car was blown up, the recordings ended.
The buffalo hunting scenes were taken from the American film The Last Hunt . They can be seen again in Winnetou Part 3 .
The premiere of the film took place on December 11, 1963 in the Mathäser -Filmpalast in Munich. Almost all of the main actors were present and bowed to the audience on stage. The success was overwhelming. In 1967 Constantin released a version shortened by seven minutes with the new age rating of 6 years. In 1971 the film was shown again in cinemas and still found a wide audience.
synchronization
| actor | German voice | role |
|---|---|---|
| Lex Barker | Gert Günther Hoffmann | Old Shatterhand |
| Pierre Brice | Christian Wolff | Winnetou |
| Mario Adorf | Rainer Brandt | Frederick Santer |
| Marie Versini | Ilse Pagé | Nscho-chi |
| Walter Barnes | Arnold Marquis | Bill Jones |
| Mavid Popović | Benno Hoffmann | Intschu Tschuna |
| Dunja Rajter | Ursula Heyer | Belle |
| Niksa Stefanini | Heinz Lausch | Bullok |
Distribution title abroad
The film was announced on film posters abroad with the following titles:
- Argentina : "Winnetou El Guerrero"
- Belgium / Netherlands / Romania : "Winnetou"
- Czechoslovakia : "Vinnetou"
- Denmark : "Winnetou Præriens søn"
- France : "Winetou - 1ere epoque: La revolte des Apaches"
- United Kingdom : "Winnetou the Warrior"
- Italy : "La valle dei lunghi coltelli"
- Yugoslavia ( Serbia ): "Vinetu, 1 deo"
- Poland : "Winnetou: Złoto Apaczów"
- Russia : "Виннету"
- Spain : "Furia Apache"
- Turkey : "Kizilderililerin Isyani"
- United States : "Apache Gold" (in the invented color variant "Apache Color")
Awards
- Golden screen for over 3 million visitors within 12 months, awarded on September 17, 1964 in the Lichtburg in Essen on the occasion of the world premiere of Winnetou 2nd part .
- Bambi for the most commercially successful film 1964, awarded in May 1965 at the Deutsches Museum , Munich
Reviews
“Director Harald Reinl tried to keep the middle between the antiquated generosity flourishes and the lively action. He tried a classic Karl May, so to speak. It's wonderful to look at. Perfectly photographed romantic landscape that you can't get better over in the Wild West. "
“Whatever the objection to Harald Reinl's undertaking - if Karl May has to be made into a film, then we will put up with this form. This is a perfect entertainment film, delicious the gags, delicious the wildness. Field, forest and meadow frenzy of delightful joy. By the way - also a film for adults! "
"The rehabilitation of German films as show business, initiated with the 'Schatz im Silbersee', will be continued in the new Karl May fairy tale western without any significant increases."
“The bang effects are massive in this German-romantic western film, which wants to be a noble Western and is not. A steam locomotive puffs through the middle of the gangster saloon, which bursts like a house of cards. The monumental equestrian and fighting scenes are a success: Tito's extras shoot with pleasure at the American Yankees. "
"Atmospherically very densely staged, a bit wooden in the representation."
"Successful western by Harald Reinl based on the famous Karl May novel."
“An atmospherically rather dense attempt to create a 'German Western'. Between the intense fighting and comic interludes, the film describes emotionally sentimental themes such as hatred, reconciliation, advocacy, forgiveness, love and death. "
"After SCHATZ IM SILBERSEE, WINNETOU 1ST PART is the best Karl May film that has ever been produced."
media
- Book : Karl May - Gesammelte Werke, Vol. 7, Winnetou I , Karl-May-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7802-0007-5
- Video : Winnetou I , Kinowelt Home Entertainment
- DVD : Winnetou I , Kinowelt Home Entertainment
- Blu-ray : Winnetou I , Rialto / Tobis
- Music : Wild West - Hot Orient - Karl May film music 1936–1968 - Bear Family Records BCD 16413 HL - 8 CDs with 192 pages of film book
Remake
On behalf of RTL , Christian Becker produced a remake of the novel trilogy directed by Philipp Stölzl in 2015 with Winnetou - Der Mythos Lives . The shooting took place in the summer of 2015 in Croatia and North Rhine-Westphalia . The remake with Nik Xhelilaj (Winnetou), Wotan Wilke Möhring (Old Shatterhand) and Iazua Larios (Nscho-Tschi) in the leading roles and Jürgen Vogel , Milan Peschel and Fahri Yardim in other roles was broadcast as a three-part television film from December 25, 2016 .
literature
- Michael Petzel: Karl May Filmbuch , Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg, second expanded edition 1999, ISBN 3-7802-0153-4 .
- Reinhard Weber: Die Karl May Films , specialist publisher for film literature, Landshut, third edition 2018, ISBN 978-3-943-12708-9 .
Web links
- Winnetou Part 1 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- further film data ( memento from December 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at deutscher-tonfilm.de
- Winnetou 1st part at filmportal.de
- Sound carrier with the film music
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Petzel: Karl-May-Filmbuch . Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg, Radebeul 1998, ISBN 3-7802-0153-4 , p. 129-149 .
- ^ Opening credits of the original version of the film
- ↑ Advertising material from Constantin-Film and Rialto-Film
- ↑ Winnetou I, BR Germany Italy France 1963 Feature film: Costume design for "Winnetou" , Irms Pauli estate, Deutsches Filminstitut, Frankfurt am Main, accessed: December 3, 2018
- ^ Widescreenmuseum.com: Movie poster , accessed August 11, 2008
- ↑ Winnetou 1st part. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Winnetou I on hd-reporter.de
- ↑ TV Spielfilm , issue 23/2015, page 10 ff.