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Without Vidal Winnetou would be inconceivable. Vidal, called El Señorito. In the Spanish film “Los Atracadores” (“The Robbers”), he was one of three young men in Barcelona, the drifting into crime. JD Vidal proposes it to rob the local cinema, what goes wrong horribly. At the end of the film he is shot. Just as Winnetou.
But what has all this to do with the Apache chief? Well, Vidal was shown by the completely unknown Pierre Brice. The film was shown in 1962 at the Berlinale, and the young actor was a guest at the premiere. In one of the film parties, allegedly on the terrace of the InterConti, then still the Hilton, it came to a fateful encounter with the Berlin film producer Horst Wendlandt. The sought for his project “Treasure of Silver Lake” urgently find a past performer of Winnetou. In Pierre Brice he found him. The learned a little later on a sailing holiday in Cannes that he was Wendlandt first choice. Large fancy the role he did not feel, Karl May’s books were unknown to him. Luckily he was persuaded. Just one month after the end of the Berlinale began filming in Yugoslavia
“Old Shatterhand in Moabit”
So we can say. Without the Berlinale, no, no Berlin would Pierre Brice never Winnetou become and the biggest success story of German cinema of the sixties would so not occurred. Especially since the two competing Karl May producer in Berlin were:. Horst Wendlandt of 1962 to Berlin laid Rialto Film and Artur Brauner with his CCC Studios on Eiswerder
As such, had the relationship between Berlin and Winnetou started much earlier, as far back as Karl May, if you will. The sat down in 1910 before the district court Charlottenburg and 1912 before the Berlin Regional Court against a slanderous attack the journalist Rudolf Lebius to defend, who had called him a “born criminal”. Towards the end of his life Karl May had caught his youthful sins again. The public learned of early criminal offenses, also became increasingly clear that he and Old Shatterhand not, as claimed by him, and the same person – both trigger for an unprecedented smear campaign, in which the attack of Lebius just one of many was. The dispute gave 1988 submission to the radio play “Old Shatterhand in Moabit”, broadcast by the Berliner Rundfunk
The very first Karl May film is closely associated with Berlin. He was called “On the ruins of Paradise “and based on a chapter of the Orient’s novel” From Baghdad to Istanbul. ” It was filmed in 1920 in the movie studio converted to double hall of Albatros-Flugzeugwerke in Johannisthal and the desert sands of Lübars. Two other silent films followed in the same year.
triumph with “The Treasure of Silver Lake”
But the triumph of Karl May in German cinemas began only in 1962 with Pierre Brice as Winnetou in “The Treasure of Silver Lake “. Horst Wendlandt had worked before his Rialto time for Artur Brauner’s CCC Film, looking after the success of the films with the dream couple Winnetou / Old Shatterhand suspended its accusation that he had but want to Karl May film. The fact Brown, too soon, however, it remained only the less attractive oriental fabrics to Kara Ben Nemsi – up to “Old Shatterhand”, again with Lex Barker as the title character and Pierre Brice as Winnetou, but went to the film back to any particular Roman .
It also had a certain Georg Mitic a first brief appearance as dancing Apache, the two other Karl May inserts in “Winnetou 2″ and “vultures” followed. The name was Germanized, later allowed a native of Yugoslavia actor Gojko Mitic under his real name to make a career and advance to the main Indian performer the Defa, a kind Winnetou the East. In the film, he could mimic the noble Apache though never, but probably at the Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg. And even with the planned RTL Dreiteiler to Winnetou & amp; Co. will be Mitic in a small role.
For this was also Pierre Brice was intended as Winnetou’s father Intshu-tshuna, from which now, after his death, nothing will. He was with his Indian role, incidentally, also in the GDR popular: At Christmas in 1982 ran the Winnetou trilogy and “The Treasure of Silver Lake” in the GDR television, more movies with Pierre Brice followed, with fantastic rates
. Longtime popular figure in France
Their star was of course after 1962 often in Berlin. So he handed out in 1999 at the edge of the former Berlin Marathon in his role as UNICEF ambassador donation boxes, took the same year also in Berlin at the ZDF comedy show “Laughter is good” part. The following year he was in the leisure center Marzahn his Berlin stage debut in the comedy “Indiscreet”, and in 2002 he participated in the Wilmersdorfer Cross Church at the funeral for Horst Wendlandt part, the man who had 40 years previously spotted him in Berlin.
This was followed by 2003, “continued Peace Cinema” gala at the Schauspielhaus am Gendarmenmarkt, 2004, the presentation of his autobiography at the Adlon and 2010 the presentation of the Golden Camera. As early as 2007 he had received from the French Ambassador to the Order as a Knight of the French Legion of Honor. Honored will thus, as it was then called, “not only a great and popular actor,” but also “a longtime popular figure in France.” 2012 finally Pierre Brice was a guest of Karl May Festival at Kino Babylon in the middle. Once Indians, Indians always.
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