Winnetou part 2
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| German title | Winnetou part 2 | ||
| Original title | Winnetou 2nd part Vinetu II deo Le trésor des montagnes bleues Giorni di fuoco |
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| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany , Yugoslavia , France , Italy | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Publishing year | 1964 | ||
| length | 94 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 6 | ||
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| Director | Harald Reinl | ||
| script |
Harald G. Petersson with the dramaturgical assistance of Manfred Barthel from the Karl May film book by Michael Petzel |
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| production |
Preben Philipsen (production) and Horst Wendlandt (overall management) for Rialto Film Preben Philipsen (Berlin); S. N. C. (Paris); Atlantis Film (Rome); Ivo Vrhoveć for Jadran-Film (Zagreb) |
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| music | Martin Böttcher | ||
| camera | Ernst W. Kalinke | ||
| cut | Hermann Haller | ||
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Winnetou 2nd part is a movie ( Karl May film ) by Harald Reinl from 1964, which loosely refers to the book of the same name by Karl May . The leading roles are cast with Lex Barker and Pierre Brice as well as Anthony Steel , Karin Dor and Klaus Kinski .
The premiere of the film was on September 17, 1964 in the Lichtburg in Essen .
action
Winnetou is able to save the chief's daughter Ribanna from a bear at the last moment during a ride to the tribe of the Assiniboin Indians . In gratitude, their father releases three previously captured soldiers from the stake at Winnetou's request. Among the soldiers is Lieutenant Merril, the son of the commandant of Fort Niobrara. He wants to ensure that Indians and whites can meet in the fort for a peace talks. In the Assiniboin Indian camp, Winnetou and Ribanna get closer and fall in love.
Old Shatterhand learns from Lieutenant Merril that the band of bandit Bud Forrester has raided a Ponca Indian tent camp because of oil deposits on their land. Shatterhand goes with the adventure seeker Lord Castlepool to New Venango, the headquarters of the bandit Forrester. When Shatterhand tries to stop the bandits and the workers there, the oil warehouse in New Venango is set on fire by the surviving Ponca chief. Forrester uses the burning oil against the workers, Shatterhand can save himself with Lord Castlepool at the last minute.
During the meeting of the Indians at Fort Niobrara, Lieutenant Merril declares that he is ready to marry Ribanna for the sake of peace. Winnetou is concerned, but sacrifices his love for Ribanna for peace. Forrester is still not giving up. He and his men attack a settlers' trek and want to blame the Assiniboin for this. His henchman David Lucas poses as the last survivor of the trek to the soldiers in Fort Niobrara; Lieutenant Merril's father sends out a punitive expedition. Lieutenant Merril secretly delivers Lucas to the Assiniboin, to whom he and Ribanna go after the wedding in the fort.
When Old Shatterhand, Lord Castlepool and Winnetou visit the location of the attack on the trek, Forrester and his gang discover them and lay siege to them in a hollow. With a trick they can finally withdraw and also put the soldiers on the trail of the gang. Lucas manages to get rid of his guards and warn Forrester that the Assiniboin are waiting for him in New Venango. Forrester, who can no longer get the supplies there, follows the plan of Lucas, who has noticed that the women and children of the Indians are in a cave with the newly married couple. There Forrester arrests Ribanna and Lieutenant Merril. He demands that the soldiers who arrived with Shatterhand go free, otherwise he wants to kill the couple.
Winnetou manages to swim with warriors of the Assiniboin through an underground tributary into the cave and free Merril and Ribanna while the soldiers and Shatterhand attack at the entrance. As the last survivor of the bandits, Forrester is given the chance to escape from the cave before he dies from Indian arrows. The peace is saved, Winnetou and Old Shatterhand can ride towards new adventures.
background
After the great success of Winnetou 1st part , the filming of the second part was obvious. Due to the complexity of the novel, however, it was essential to make a selection. The Karl May Verlag encouraged to use the old-death episode, but the beginning of 1964 decided Horst Wendlandt at a meeting of Constantin Film not least because of occurring in the Old Death Episode Ku Klux Klan , instead, making the Ribanna episode the basis of the plot.
Winnetou 2nd part takes up themes from love films. Winnetou's love for Ribanna is also thematized in the novel, but told in retrospect, that is, Winnetou campaigned for Ribanna in the original book before Old Shatterhand came to America. In the book, too, with Old Firehand, a white man won the favor of women. This form of the book does not appear in the film, but Wendlandt decided on an officer as a competitor for Ribanna. Accordingly, Harald G. Petersson submitted his script at the end of March. On April 15, 1964, the final discussion about this took place at Constantin in Munich. The book was accepted without objection, so filming could begin without delay.
From the beginning of April, director Harald Reinl and his team were intensively looking for new, impressive landscape motifs in Yugoslavia. On May 18, 1964, filming began at Postojna . Winnetou's fight with the bear was filmed there, for which three grizzlies from Hamburg were delivered from Rudi Althoff's vaudeville. Althoff himself played most of the bear scene in a bear skin, while Herbert Kerz played the bear for the recordings of the second team. Much of the filming took place nearby in the Postojna Caves . Here Pierre Brice stepped into the cold rock lake of Rakov Škocjan for the scene of Ribanna's liberation .
The film crew then went to Split and stayed at the Hotel Marijan. The small town of Stobreć is located south of Split. There, on May 28, 1964, filming of the New Venango episode began in an old quarry. Most of the night shots were filmed during the day and copied to nighttime mood, with pyrotechnician Erwin Lange responsible for the extensive explosions . The raid on the settlers' trek and the siege of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand by the bandits were filmed north of Split near the suburb of Solin . At the exit of the Cetina River near Omiš south of Split, Vladimir Tadej built an artificial cave entrance. This is where the exterior shots of the Assiniboin cave took place.
The third standing quarters were finally taken in Karlobag . In the vicinity of the small town of Lukovo, recordings of Indians, soldiers and bandits on horseback were taken for four days. On June 18, the Rialto / Jadran convoy moved to Rijeka . On the plain of Grobnik Polje, where important scenes had already been filmed for Der Schatz im Silbersee and Winnetou Part 1 , film architect Vladimir Tadej had built “Fort Niobrara”. The Assiniboin camp was on a meadow near Platak. On July 20, 1964, filming was finished. The conclusion was made with interior shots in the CCC studios in Berlin, where the interior of the New Venango stores was shown.
The premiere of Winnetou 2nd part in Essen's Lichtburg on September 17, 1964 was the climax of the Winnetou enthusiasm. 4,416 visitors found space for the three world premieres in the theater, and thousands waited in the rain in front of the Lichtburg. A group from the Sioux Nevada Club from Düsseldorf received the main actors in original clothing, followed by a press reception in the courtyard.
An English-language dubbed version of the film was released under the title "Last of the Renegades".
Reviews
“The fact remains: The first Karl May film DER SCHATZ IM SILBERSEE was the best. It was the film in which you thought you could feel a touch of Karl May's wild west romanticism. What was hinted at in WINNETOU 1ST PART, however, remains unmistakable in the second part: the shift of the event to the optically effective, technically well-arranged large-scale scenes to the detriment of Karl May's imaginatively designed details. "
“The simplicity of the story doesn't require any major acting. Lex Barker relies on the effect of his figure and his slapstick. We owe the only artistic moments to stage star Klaus Kinski. All in all: simplicity, cleanliness and situation tension, very suitable as a youth film. "
“The feeling increases more and more, as if the work had been done more negligently, assuming that the existing routine could do it without effort. Nothing of significance is therefore to be reported on the direction, cast, camera, music. The fact that the romantic landscape of Yugoslavia plays along nicely is not necessarily due to the staff. "
“WINNETOU 2nd PART is the most romantic Karl May film - it is not stingy with beautiful landscapes, magnificent colors and tragic love. It may not have the fairytale flair of SCHATZ IM SILBERSEE, but it still breathes the spirit of Karl May. "
"The most action-packed and most spectacular part of the Winnetou trilogy."
“The second part of the successful 'Winnetou' trilogy after Karl May, already much more superficial and stereotypical than its predecessor. A trivial conversation with a lot of struggle, some humor, a lot of sentiment and some beautiful landscape shots. "
Awards
Golden canvas for over 3 million visitors within 12 months, awarded on October 14, 1965 in the "Lichtburg" in Essen on the occasion of the world premiere of Winnetou 3rd part .
music
A separate theme was composed for the main character Winnetou in the films Der Schatz im Silbersee and Winnetou . For this film, Martin Böttcher composed as a theme a completely new and longer Winnetou melody , which was subsequently one of the most covered songs and film in a 1998 version of the group Super Boys even took first place in the ZDF - Hitparade occupied. The main musical theme of the film became the second most successful music title from the Karl May films after the Old Shatterhand melody .
media
- Book: Karl May - Collected Works, Vol. 8, Winnetou II , Karl-May-Verlag, ISBN 3780200074
- VHS: Winnetou II , Kinowelt Home Entertainment 371
- DVD: Winnetou II , Kinowelt Home Entertainment 500006
- Blu-ray: Winnetou II , 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
- Michael Petzel: Karl May Filmbuch , Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg, second expanded edition 1999, ISBN 3-7802-0153-4 .
Web links
- Winnetou 2nd part in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Winnetou 2nd part in the German synchronous file
- Winnetou 2nd part at filmportal.de
- further sound carriers with the film music
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Petzel: Karl-May-Filmbuch . Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg, Radebeul 1998, ISBN 3-7802-0153-4 , p. 192-210 .
- ^ Opening credits of the original version of the film
- ↑ Advertising material from Constantin-Film and Rialto-Film
- ↑ Winnetou 2nd part. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Winnetou II on hd-reporter.de