Genres:Biography | Drama | History | War Countries:West Germany Directors:Hans-Jürgen Syberberg Actors:Helmut Käutner | Kristina Söderbaum | Käthe Gold | Attila Hörbiger | William Trenk | Mady Rahl | Lil Dagover | Rudolf Prack | Rainer von Artenfels | Leon Askin | Marquard Bohm | Wolfgang Büttner | Peter Chatel | Erwin Faber | Rudolf Fernau
This is a biographical movie about famous best selling German writer, noted mainly for books set in the American Old West, (best known for the characters of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand) and similar books set in the Orient and Middle East.
The film is structured as a kind of biography, and the long central scene of a courtroom battle marks the collapse of May's dreams as he gets more and more deeply embroiled in the realities of Prussian jurisprudence. The matter-of-fact historical framework acquires an added resonance from the fact that all the main parts are played by prominent figures from the Nazi cinema of the '30s. The mesh of fact, fiction, realism and expressionism is complex and fascinating.
Genres: Biography | Drama | History | War