Winnetou - Karl May Movies With Winnetou Character

Karl May Movies With Winnetou Character

In all the following movies, Winnetou was played by French actor Pierre Brice who was usually teamed with Lex Barker as Old Shatterhand. The music for all Winnetou movies (with its famous title melody played on the harmonica by the late Johnny Müller) was composed by German composer Martin Böttcher, except Old Shatterhand, composed by Italian composer Riz Ortolani, and Winnetou und sein Freund Old Firehand, composed by German composer Peter Thomas. The films were so successful in Germany that their budgets could be increased almost every time. Principal shooting usually took place in Paklenica karst river canyon national park, Yugoslavia (now Croatia). The early films preceded the spaghetti western.

1. Der Schatz im Silbersee (1962) — Treasure of Silver Lake (1965) (Germany) (Yugoslavia)
2. Winnetou – 1. Teil (1963) — Apache Gold (1965) (Germany) (Yugoslavia)
3. Old Shatterhand (1964) — Apaches Last Battle (1964) (UK) (Yugoslavia)
4. Winnetou – 2. Teil (1964) — Last of the Renegades (1966) (UK) (Germany) (Yugoslavia)
5. Unter Geiern (1964) — Frontier Hellcat (1966) (Germany) (Yugoslavia)
6. Der Ölprinz (1965) — Rampage at Apache Wells (1965) (Yugoslavia)
7. Winnetou – 3. Teil (1965) — Winnetou: The Desperado Trail (1965) (Germany) (Yugoslavia)
8. Old Surehand – 1. Teil (1965) — Flaming Frontier (1969) (Germany) (Yugoslavia)
9. Winnetou und das Halbblut Apanatschi (1966) — Half-Breed (1973) (Germany) (Yugoslavia)
10. Winnetou und sein Freund Old Firehand (1966) — Thunder at the Border (1966) (Germany) (Yugoslavia)
11. Winnetou und Shatterhand im Tal der Toten (1968) — Winnetou and Shatterhand in the Valley of Death (1968) (Germany) (Yugoslavia)

All of the Winnetou movies are available on VHS tape in PAL format – some also dubbed in English under the above mentioned English titles. Winnetou I–III, Der Schatz im Silbersee, Old Shatterhand and Winnetou und Shatterhand im Tal der Toten are also available on DVD (region-code 2), but all in German only. In 2004–2005, the missing movies were also to reappear on DVD.

In April 2009, DVDs of the cleared remastered movies were issued in the Czech Republic, selling as an add-on to the Metro newspaper for 50 Czech crowns. All movies are dubbed into Czech and German, with subtitles in Czech and Slovak.