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In their first cinematic adventure, Apache chief Winnetou and mountain man Old Shatterhand pursue a gang of murderous outlaws who will stop at nothing to find the legendary treasure of Silve... Read allIn their first cinematic adventure, Apache chief Winnetou and mountain man Old Shatterhand pursue a gang of murderous outlaws who will stop at nothing to find the legendary treasure of Silver Lake.In their first cinematic adventure, Apache chief Winnetou and mountain man Old Shatterhand pursue a gang of murderous outlaws who will stop at nothing to find the legendary treasure of Silver Lake.
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Sima Janicijevic
- Patterson
- (as Jan Sid)
Velimir Chytil
- Woodward
- (as Velimir Hitil)
Hans-Walter Clasen
- Hilton
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Josef Dahmen
- Hartley
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThis was the very first movie to receive the "Golden Screen" (Goldene Leinwand) for having over 3 million visitors within 12 months. It was awarded on 22 January 1964 at the Mathäser-Filmpalast, Munich. The movie also received the Bambi-award 1963 as best box-office-production, handed over on 19 April 1964 at the Schwarzwaldhalle, Karlsruhe. The movie also received a sum of 200.000 DM from the Federal Ministry of the Interior in 1963 as movie-prize. The main title by composer Martin Böttcher, the "Old Shatterhand-Melodie" was the most successful track in German hit parades in the 1960ies, stayed there for several months and sold over 100.00 copies. For that time that was very unusual, especially for a movie soundtrack without any singers. The music was played by members of the symphony orchestra of the NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk = North German Radio). The theme later also was recorded as a vocal track by several singers, including a version by the movie's actor Pierre Brice (Winnetou). The set location was in Yugoslavia (that doesn't have any Alps, as some foreign critics seem to believe). "Der Schatz im Silbersee" was the first movie based on a novel by Karl May set in the American West. Earlier movies based on his novels were all set in the Near East.
- GoofsThe mentioned butterfly Papilio polymnestor parinda is from Sri Lanka and not from North America.
- Alternate versionsWhen the film was submitted to the FSK, they offered the distributor the choice of either a "Not under 12" rating for the uncut version or a "Not under 6" rating if some fight scenes were removed. Distributor Constantin decided to release the uncut version. However, for the re-release in 1964, some scenes were removed and the film was released with a "Not under 6" rating. Unfortunately, these cuts were done to the original negative and the removed parts were destroyed.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Auf den Spuren Winnetous (2004)
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It's a romanticised fantasy, so don't criticize it for its factual inaccuracies
Having read some of the comments on this film I feel somehow compelled to defend one of my favourite childhood movies. First off, I find it very odd that accuracy in the depiction of Indian culture and the what kind of equipment was used in a film made in the 1960s, when with very few exceptions (such as Cheyenne Autumn and Broken Arrow) American Westerns only depicted Indians as villains. Moreover, in the 1960s cinematography was maybe a bit more boring by modern music-video style cutting standards. Also, the prop work (costumes, the kind of guns and knives used etc....excuse me?) was simply making do with what you could get. This was not a multi-million-dollar budget movie, it was produced for German TV in a coproduction with Yugoslavia and I think Italy. Of course the story is full of clichés, and that's not surprising since Karl May never even left Germany, he was writing escapist romanticised fantasies of noble savages and cowboys fighting against evil savages and cowboys, it's not an ethnographic study on mid-19th-century Native American war-painting styles. It is still a very good and entertaining movie with likable characters, including some for comic relief. It is still the best of all the Karl May films, even though it greatly deviates from the book. When you see these films as an adult and don't know them from childhood I can understand they don't really grip you or blow you away. But they are classics. Their clichés, great music, and scenery make them so popular and the films have, along with the books, had a great impact on popular culture in Germany, even having spawned their own spoofs and parodies. If you are looking for factual accuracy, don't watch Westerns at all, if you just like a good adventure story, watch it.
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- May 26, 2007
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- Treasure of Silver Lake
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- Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia(Silver Lake scenes)
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- DEM 2,900,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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