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The Treasure of the Silver Lake (German: Der Schatz im Silbersee) is a 1962 western film directed by Harald Reinl and starring Lex Barker, Pierre Brice and Karin Dor. It is very loosely based on Karl May's 1891 novel of the same name. It was shot in Yugoslavia and was the first in the highly successful Winnetou film series by Rialto Film. It was made as a co-production between France, West Germany and Yugoslavia.

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The Treasure of the Silver Lake
Directed by	Harald Reinl
Written by	Harald G. Petersson
Based on	The Treasure of the Silver Lake by Karl May
Produced by	Horst Wendlandt Erwin Gitt Zvonko Kovacic
Starring	Lex Barker Pierre Brice Herbert Lom Karin Dor
Cinematography	Ernst W. Kalinke
Edited by	Hermann Haller
Music by	Martin Böttcher
Production companies	Rialto Film Jadran Film Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie
Distributed by	Constantin Film (West Germany) Columbia Pictures (United States)
Release dates	14 December 1962 (1962-12-14) (West Germany) 1 November 1965 (1965-11-01) (United States)
Running time	111 minutes
Countries	France West Germany Yugoslavia
Language	German
Box office	€8.6 million (West Germany) 42 million tickets (worldwide)

The film's sets were designed by the Croatian art director Dusan Jericevic. Extensive location shooting took place across Yugoslavia, particularly around the Plitvice Lakes National Park which doubled for the American West. Post-production work was done at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg.

Plot

Fred Engel's father is murdered by Colonel Brinkley in order to acquire a treasure map, however the Colonel only acquires half of it, the other half is held by Mrs. Butler. Discovering the scene of the crime, Old Shatterhand and Winnetou help Fred bring his father's murderer to justice and locate the treasure of Silver Lake.

Cast

• Lex Barker as Old Shatterhand
• Pierre Brice as Winnetou
• Götz George as Fred Engel
• Herbert Lom as Colonel Brinkley
• Karin Dor as Ellen Patterson
• Eddi Arent as Lord Castlepool
• Marianne Hoppe as Mrs. Butler
• Ralf Wolter as Sam Hawkens
• Mirko Boman as Gunstick Uncle
• Sima Janicijevic as Patterson
• Ilija Ivezic as Hilton
• Branko Spoljar as Doc Jefferson Hartley
• Milivoj Stojanovic as Knox
• Slobodan Dimitrijevic as . Rollender Donner
• Jozo Kovacevic as Grosser Wolf
• Velimir Chytil as Woodward

Box office

It was the highest-grossing film of 1962 in West Germany, selling 10 million tickets and grossing €8.6 million.[1] In France, it was the 29th top-grossing film of 1963, selling 1,656,736 tickets.[2] In the Soviet Union, the film sold 39.8 million tickets.[3] This adds up to a total of 42,456,736 tickets sold worldwide.

The film was a phenomenal success, predating that of Sergio Leone's films. This helped provide a cultural and financial context for the later Spaghetti Western films.[4]

References

Bibliography

• Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books, 2005.

External links

• Treasure of the Silver Lake at IMDb
• Treasure of the Silver Lake at filmportal.de/en

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