Winnetou & Old Shatterhand

Enjoyed this series, beautiful scenic settings, great storyline.

A remake well starred by Nik Xhelilaj as Winnetou and Wotan Wilke as Karl May named afterwards Old Shatterhand replacing the classic roles starred by Pierre Brice and Lex Barker .Besides here appears other secondaries from the vintage series as Marie Versini and Gojko Mític. It stars Woman Wilke as Karl May , same name to novel's author , who goes USA , arriving in Ellis Island, as he works as a railway engineer. When the White men invade an Indian graveyard, Apaches led by Winnetou attack the invaders and take prisioner Karl. Later on, Winnetou forms a strong Comradeship and Friendship with the German railroad engineer . While, Shatterhand falls in love for Nacho Tschi :Lazua Larios , Winnetou sister , and Shaman of the tribe Apache. At the end happens a breathtaking confrontation on a railway bridge in some spectacular scenes that result to be the Highlights of the movie.

First entry of a recent trilogy based on the famous saga written by Karl May starred by the chief Apache Winnetou and the German adventurer Old Shatterhand, being well produced by Rat Pack and Rialto with its producer Wendlandt. Glimmer and exciting western that contains adventures, action , crossfire, and gorgeous Yugoslavian exteriors magnetically photographed in which takes place the first emotive meeteing between Winnetou and Shatterhand incarnated by new and attractive actors. As Nik SHelilaj bears remarkable resemblance to Pierre Brice, as physical as acting. However, Wotan Wilke does not look like Lex Barker or Stewart Granger. This agreeable saga benefits itself from marvelous scenarios , shootouts , and larger-than-life roles. The film displays colorful and rousing cinematography with wonderful outdoors . Being shot in similar Yugoslavia landscapes from Pierre Brice/Lex Barker series , paying a nice tribute to the vintage movies . As well as a catching musical score , including the classic Ballad: the Winnetou's melody by Martín Bottcher, composer of the saga of the sixties. The motion picture was well directed by Philipp Stolzl who has made this new reboot trilogy about Winnetou formed by three good and sympathetic flicks .He formerly directed successes as The Physician, Erased, Goethe and Nordwand.

It warmed my heart to hear the soundtrack that took me back to the first Winnetou movie. Being a ardent Karl May fan I was enamoured with the first 2/3 movies and then got more disappointed with the ever more silly plot.

However, the reboot is much more gritty and more drama. It is therefor inconceivable why the plot had to be diverting from the actual story line. The original books are not that bad to be totally ignored. It would have been nice to see this quality with the original story line.

Dreadful the Aoache talked LAKOTA imean if you want to make a more serious movie let it be the correct language and they act as if the Apaches were unknown with white men.They were not they met the first white man 200-300 years earlier. Really dreadful if someone knows better

The movie is a shameful exponent of cancel culture, gravely distorting facts, context, characters, dialogues etc just to fit the socialist narrative, far away from all written content created by Karl May. They just used his brand mark to promote a vicious agenda.

Ages of characters. Almost all characters are miss aged, creating premises for "moral" judgments, made by the certain spectators which are "empowered" in doing that, like some relations between characters are or not "morally acceptable".

Facts. The author insists firmly on the religious construct of the main character, which he correlated with the entire flow of his creation, also creating causalities on it. But in the movie, the main character is presenting himself as an atheist, making the entire narrative flow an invention.

Context. In the movie it is completely ignored the construct of the home of the apache, putting all in tents. Also, almost everything, as in the stage, is dirty, scrambled, primitive, savage. This act forcibly degrades the origin of the apache, their culture, their civilization, therefore their vision upon life itself.