Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi

Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi
Genre	adventure
Created by	Günter Gräwert
Starring	Karl Michael Vogler Heinz Schubert Jean-Pierre Zola Lina Carstens
Composer(s)	Martin Böttcher
Country of origin	Germany
Original language(s)	German
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	26
Production
Executive producer(s)	Max Gierke
Camera setup	Horst Schier Michael Thiele
Running time	30
Release
Original network	ZDF
Original release	October 1, 1973 – April 7, 1975

Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi is a German television series broadcast from 1973 through 1975 in 26 parts and two seasons. It featured an adventurer probably inspired by British explorers Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) and T. E. Lawrence. The scripts were faithful to Karl May's Orient novels, and the score is from Martin Böttcher who previously had composed the music for ten very successful Karl May films in cinema, and also for the two parts of Winnetous Rückkehr in 1998, also being aired by the German station ZDF.

Kara Ben Nemsi (Karl Michael Vogler) has traveled the Wild West as Old Shatterhand and is now about to explore the Near East. His traditional German first name Karl is difficult for many non-Germans to pronounce, so his oriental sidekick Hadschi Halef Omar prefers to call him "Kara".

Kara Ben Nemsi, a German hero-adventurer of the 1880s, is actually a kind of superman (as was Doc Savage later), not only speaking dozens of foreign tongues fluently but also being able to knock out everybody with just one blow to the temple. He rides his famous black stallion Rih as well as Frank Hopkins could, and is such an excellent marksman he could work in Wild West shows.

Hadschi Halef Omar (played by Heinz Schubert, best known from the German version of the British television series Till Death Us Do Part, is the hero's scout and his teacher when it comes to oriental conventions. He always shows solidarity although the very self-confident Kara Ben Nemsi is always prone to take risks.

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