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Apache Gold

Apache Gold
Apache Gold.jpg
Directed by Harald Reinl
Produced by Horst Wendlandt
Written by Karl May
Source material
Harald G. Petersson
Screenplay
Starring Lex Barker
Pierre Brice
Music by Martin Böttcher
Cinematography Ernst W. Kalinke
Edited by Hermann Haller
Distributed by Constantin Film (West Germany)
Columbia Pictures (United States)
Release date
  • 11 December 1963 (1963-12-11)
Running time
101 minutes
Country Germany
Yugoslavia
Language German

Apache Gold (German: Winnetou – 1. Teil), also known as Winnetou the Warrior is a 1963 German Western film directed by Harald Reinl.

Santer (Mario Adorf) and his gang are after the Apache Gold. They intrude Apache land and intercept a courier named Black Eagle. The young warrior is killed while the gangsters attempt to retrieve information from him.

Meanwhile the young chartered surveyor Charlie aka „Old Shatterhand“ (Lex Barker) discovers that the „Great Western Railway“ commits a breach of valid contracts by taking a shortcut through Apache land. He is told that certain geological complications would leave the company no other choice but he can refute these allegations as a pretext to save money even at the costs of lives.

Winnetou (Pierre Brice) observes how the railway is built right into the land of his tribe. On his way back to his village he comes across the corpse of Black Eagle. He brings Black Eagle to his family and reports to his father Intschu-tschuna.

Chief Intschu-tschuna is deeply worried that even more villains like Santer will get to the Apache land and consequently waste his people if the „Great Western Railway“ can carry on.

A missionary called „Klekih-petra“ beseeches him not to start a war. He talks the aristocratic chief and his son Winnetou into setting up a meeting with a deputation of the Great Western Railway. Proceedings are prepared and Old Shatterhand is chosen to convince the Indians that the company will respect the contracts after all.

But Santer doesn't let go of his ambitions. He strives to give Winnetou's people a bad name, so that the U.S.Army will come and drive the people off their land, hereby making way for his personal ambitions.

Santer persuades the chief of a Kiowa tribe to attack the meeting. Klekih-petra is hereby killed and Winnetou is captured by his arch enemies who plan to torture him.

Old Shatterhand risks his life in order to save Winnetou. At night he sneaks into the Kiowa's camp and cuts the chief's son's fetters. Winnetou can escape but doesn't see his saviour.


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