Winnetou and the half-breed Apanatschi
Winnetou and the half-blood Apanatschi is a German - Yugoslav film from 1966, very loosely based on motifs by Karl May ( Karl May film ). The premiere was on August 17, 1966 in the Mathäser-Filmpalast , Munich .
This film is one of three Karl May films of which View Master disks with three-dimensional images went on sale.
action
Winnetou saves little Happy's life when he climbs into an eagle's nest to get an eagle feather for his sister Apanatschi's birthday and is attacked by the eagle. Apanatschi is the daughter of the farmer Mac Haller and the Apache Indian Mine-yota, she is a half-breed . However, this is not an obstacle for the impetuous young Jeff Brown, he wants to marry her.
Mac Haller leads Winnetou and Apanatschi to a gold vein and gives it to her for her birthday. Apanatschi is not particularly enthusiastic, however, because she knows that gold only brings bad luck. Indeed, the two fur hunters Pinky and Sloan find out about the gold source and murder Mac Haller when he refuses to reveal the location. Apanatschi and Happy only escape because Old Shatterhand can intervene in time. The two are taken to the Trans Continental Rail Road (TCRR) railroad camp for their safety, and Old Shatterhand rides on to Rocky Town, where a gang of bandits led by Curly-Bill is up to mischief.
Curly-Bill found out from Pinky and Sloan that Apanatschi knew about the location of the gold, and had his bandits raid the railway camp. They kidnap Apanatschi and Happy to their refuge, a shabby saloon. Jeff succeeds in sneaking in as a "magician" and briefly gaining the bandits' trust. He uses a trick to get the key to the room in which Apanatschi and Happy are stuck, and with the help of the landlady Bessy they can escape through an underground passage. Apanatschi is now to be brought to safety with the Kiowa Indians.
Old Shatterhand has meanwhile mobilized the railroad workers, and together with Winnetou the bandits are attacked in their saloon in Rocky-Town. However, some manage to escape. Curly-Bill wants to kidnap Apanatschi again, but he can only catch Happy. Winnetou makes himself available as a hostage and brings the bandits to the location of the gold. Curly-Bill then lets Winnetou and Happy go, which his sub-leader Judge doesn't like at all. He just shoots his boss and makes himself the new leader.
The bandits load their horses with all the gold they can get and make their way back to Rocky-Town, where Old Shatterhand and the railroad workers are waiting for them. They have filled a tunnel under the city with dynamite, and when the bandits arrive everything will be blown up. On his escape, Judge is run over by a locomotive, and the rest of the gang is killed by the Kiowas under Winnetou's leadership. Apanatschi gives the remaining residents of Rocky-Town the gold for reconstruction and moves with Jeff into the old log cabin of their deceased father.
Others
This is a completely fictional story that has only the names of the main characters in common with Karl May. It was originally supposed to have the novel Halbblut as its content, but was then completely rewritten.
Paul May was planned as the director , since Harald Reinl was busy with Artur Brauner's Nibelungen and Alfred Vohrer had not fully met expectations with Old Surehand Part 1 . Filming began on April 4, 1966 near Omiš . The lonely Mac Haller farm was built by Vladimir Tadej on the other side of the Cetina and could only be reached by rubber dinghies. After a week, May was dismissed by Horst Wendlandt because of his unsuitable staging style and replaced by Harald Philipp . It was decided that all scenes should be re-shot.
In mid-April, the team moved to the Crvena Luka hotel complex south of Zadar . At the Rastevic settlement near Benkovac was the Rocky Ground railway camp and within sight of it the city of Rocky Town . The railway line with the small canyon including the locomotive had already been used in Old Surehand 1st part . Several pictures were taken at the Prezed Pass between Obrovac and Plitvice , where Manitous's finger with the gold vein was and Mac Haller was murdered. The eagle scenes at the beginning of the film were made on the Mali Alan near Obrovac. The main actor in these scenes was the 32-year-old golden eagle Peter von der Adlerwarte Berlebeck , who had already appeared in the films Der Adler vom Velsatal and Der Cornet - Die Weise von Liebe und Tod . The flight scenes on the rock, however, were created at the trick table.
Since Harald Philipp saw the gang leader Curly-Bill wrongly, he had him shot prematurely by his own people without further ado, but with that disclosed the obligatory, dramaturgically important final account with the villain.
When explosions were filmed at Crvena Luka in the backdrop of Rocky Town on May 6, a fire broke out and destroyed a large part of the buildings, including the saloon. The loss of props, material and tools as a result of this fire amounted to DM 15,545.60. The reconstruction cost DM 33,169.20. In the meantime, the scenes at the Mac-Haller farm , where only a few parts are being repaired, have been repeated had to. Further recordings were made in Bibinje's makeshift studio . On May 22nd, the team returned to Crvena Luka and shot the last scenes in the newly created Rocky Town . After three days of recording in the Berlin CCC studios, the shooting was completed on June 8th. The total cost of the film was just under four million marks.
The film is the first leading role for young star Uschi Glas as Apanatschi, who is announced in the opening credits as Ursula Glas. Only since her follow-up film The Monk with the Whip did she use the nickname "Uschi" as an artist name. In her childhood she was often referred to as a “negro”, now the dark skin color helped her to her role as a “half-blood”. However, her own voice cannot be heard in the film. Allegedly she would not have been credible as a half-Indian with a Bavarian accent and was therefore dubbed by Marion Hartmann. In June 2016, however, Uschi Glas corrected the radio program “The Blue Couch” on Bayern 1 that this was just a rumor; it was simply synchronized with it, as it saved the travel expenses to the studio.
The film was originally only released for ages 12 and over. Immediately after the premiere it was shortened by 9 minutes in order to be approved for ages 6 and up. After that, Constantin-Film only released this version to the cinemas. However, the original full version was later broadcast on television.
Winnetou and the half-breed Apanatschi was the second Rialto Karl May film that no longer received a gold screen .
criticism
“The pretty Ursula Glas, fetched from the typewriter in front of the camera, completes her role with a pleasant freshness. Her future film director Götz George, whose facial expressions can replace entire dialogues, is also very concise. "
“You in no way rely on the effect of the characters known from the novel, the plot and text are carefully worked out, there are no sentimentalities and no bad taste. This time too nothing was saved, and when a whole city is destroyed by dynamite towards the end, the burning beams just fly around. "
"Harald Philipp, who already showed little feeling for the humanitarian spirit of Karl May at the ÖLPRINZ, probably believed that, in addition to a few magic tricks of the fiancé Apanatschis, he had to improve the adventure with a good portion of cynicism and cruelty."
"Well-crafted Karl May Western, which can be viewed from around the age of 14, subject to fundamental reservations about the overall tendency of the series."
"[...] quite dull and powerless."
“Harald Philipp tried to make up for the weak points of the story [...] with an unprecedented use of pyrotechnic effects. The heroes Winnetou and Old Shatterhand are throwing entire magazines of hand-made hand grenades around in wild succession, so that one feels more reminiscent of the Battle of Stalingrad than of the Wild West. "
"Emotional like the original, but brutal contrary to the work."
media
- VHS / DVD: Winnetou and the half-breed Apanatschi -
- 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.
Web links
- Winnetou and the Half-Breed at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Winnetou and the half-breed Apanatschi in the German synchronous file
- Winnetou and the half-breed Apanatschi at Filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ All information according to Michael Petzel: Karl-May-Filmbuch , Karl-May-Verlag, Radebeul (²1999), p. 340 ff.
- ↑ Uschi Glas: With a smile , Droemer (2004), chapter 1: The evangelical negro from Lower Bavaria
- ^ Glogger, Conny, Bayerischer Rundfunk: Blue Couch: Uschi Glas | BR.de. (No longer available online.) In: www.br.de. June 26, 2016, archived from the original on June 26, 2016 ; Retrieved June 26, 2016 .
- ↑ Winnetou and the half-breed Apanatschi. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .