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Karl May MoviesKarl May movies are movies based on novels and stories by German author Karl May (1842-1912). In most cases the novels were reworked to a great extent for filmisation, some movies even only used names of some characters invented by Karl May. So in the book "Der Schatz im Silbersee" (The treasure of Silver Lake) the main character was called "Old Firehand" - in the movie it was "Old Shatterhand" (played by American actor Lex Barker). The movies "Old Shatterhand" (Apaches Last Battle) and "Winnetou und sein Freund Old Firehand" (Thunder at the Border) don't have any novel at all as basic literature. They were completely invented by the movie's writers. Several TV-productions were much more close to the novels, such as "Das Buschgespenst" and "Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi". In foreign distributions most of the movie names were not translated directly into the respective other language, but new movie titles were made up. In American distributions the makers of the movie posters also "invented" some new color formats such as "Flaming Arrow Color" for the movie "Der Schatz im Silbersee" http://www.martin-boettcher.net/clip03a.jpg and "Apache Color" http://www.martin-boettcher.net/clip04a.jpg for "Winnetou 1. Teil" (called Apache Gold in America). The silent movies of the 1920ies are considered lost. For 11 movies of the 1960ies German composer Martin Bttcher wrote landmark German filmmusic, whose success also helped the movies being successful internationally and by this helped the Italian movie business to make western-movies of their own and create a whole new movie-category, the Spaghetti western (whose most successful composer Ennio Morricone achieved his fame just after Martin Bttcher). Cinema movies (American movie titles in brackets) - Auf den Trmmern des Paradieses (-) (1920), dir.: Josef Stein (silent movie)
- Die Todeskarawane (Caravan of Death) (1920), dir.: Josef Stein (silent movie)
- Die Teufelsanbeter (The Devil Worshippers, informal) (1921), dir.: Ertugrul Moussin-Bey (silent movie)
- Durch die Wste (-) (1936), dir.: Johannes Alexander Hbler-Kahla (first sound movie)
- Die Sklavenkarawane (-) (1958), dir.: Georg Marischka / Ramn Torrado (first color movie)
- Der Lwe von Babylon (-) (1959), dir.: Johannes Kai (= Hanns Wiedmann) / Ramn Torrado
- Der Schatz im Silbersee (The Treasure of Silver Lake) (1962), dir.: Dr. Harald Reinl
- Winnetou 1. Teil (Apache Gold) (1963), dir.: Dr. Harald Reinl
- Old Shatterhand (Apaches Last Battle) (1964), dir.: Hugo Fregonese
- Der Schut (The Shoot or Yellow Devil) (1964), dir.: Robert Siodmak
- Winnetou 2. Teil (Last of the Renegades) (1964), dir.: Dr. Harald Reinl
- Unter Geiern (Frontier Hellcat) (1964), dir.: Alfred Vohrer
- Der Schatz der Azteken (The Treasure of the Aztecs) (1965), dir.: Robert Siodmak
- Die Pyramide des Sonnengottes (Pyramid of the Sun God) (1965), dir.: Robert Siodmak
- Der lprinz (Rampage at Apache Wells) (1965), dir.: Harald Philipp
- Durchs wilde Kurdistan (The Wild Men of Kurdistan) (1965), dir.: Franz Joseph Gottlieb
- Winnetou 3. Teil (The Desperado Trail) (1965), dir.: Dr. Harald Reinl
- Old Surehand 1. Teil (Flaming Frontier) (1965), dir.: Alfred Vohrer
- Im Reiche des silbernen Lwen (Fury of the Sabers) (1965), dir.: Franz Joseph Gottlieb
- Das Vermchtnis des Inka (Legacy of the Incas) (1965), dir.: Georg Marischka
- Winnetou und das Halbblut Apanatschi (Half-Breed) (1966), dir.: Harald Philipp
- Winnetou und sein Freund Old Firehand (Thunder at the Border) (1966), dir: Alfred Vohrer
- Winnetou und Shatterhand im Tal der Toten (Winnetou and Shatterhand in the Valley of Death) (1968), dir.: Dr. Harald Reinl
TV-series / -movies - Mit Karl May im Orient - 1963, 6 episodes
- Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi - 1973/75, 26 episodes
- Mein Freund Winnetou (My Friend Winnetou) - 1980, 14 episodes
- Das Buschgespenst - 1986, 2 episodes
- Prriejger in Mexiko - 1988, 2 episodes
- Winnetous Rckkehr - 1998, 2 episodes
Discography - "Wilder Westen - Heier Orient" - Karl-May-Filmmusik 1936 - 1968
- Bear Family Records BCD 16413 HL - 8 CDs with 192-pages movie-book
Literature - Michael Petzel: "Karl May Filmbuch", Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg, ISBN 3780201534
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