Schatz der Azteken, Der

Der Schatz der Azteken (West Germany, Italy, France 1965 / Director: Robert Siodmak)

This is a Eurowestern

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• Runtime: 101 min
• Release Date: 4.3.1965 (Germany)

Also known as

I violenti di Rio Bravo (Italy) | Les mercenaires du rio grande (France) | The Treasure of the Aztecs (U.S.A.) | Skarb Azteków (Poland) | De huurlingen van Rio Grande (Belguim) | Poklad Azteků (Czechoslovakia) | Cumbres de violencia (Spain) | Blago Asteka (Yugoslavia) | Atsteekkien aarre (Finland) | Az aztékok kincse (Hungary) | Ta gerakia tou Mexikou (Greece) | Oi misthoforoi tou Rio (Greece)

Cast and crew

• Cast: Lex Barker (Dr. Karl Sternau), Gerard Barray (Count Alfonso di Rodriganda), Ralf Wolter, Rik Battaglia (Captain Lazoro Verdoja), Fausto Tozzi, Gustavo Rojo, Peter Buntic

• Story: Karl May
• Screenplay: Ladislas Fodor & Robert A. Stemmle (as R.A. Stemmle), Georg Marischka, Paul Jarrico (uncredited)
• Cinematography: Siegfried Hold [Eastmancolor, Ultrascope 2,35:1]
• Music: Erwin Halletz

Synopsis

In Maximilian times, a German physician, Dr. Sternau, is asked by the American president to deliver a message to general Juarez, the leader of the rebels. The German saves the life of an Aztec princess, and is in return saved by her, after he accidently has seen the lost treasure of the Aztecs, and the girl’s father wants to kill him for this reason. Sternau’s work is thwarted by the corrupt officer Verdoja, who wants to lay his hands on the treasure.

Comment

This is the first part of a two-part movie based on novels by Karl may, set in Mexico. Some might be tempted to think it’s a forerunner of the Zapata movies, but the tone is radically different here. Ralf Wolter, who plays Sam Hawkens in the Winnetou movies, has a nice cameo as a man who sells cuckoo-clocks to the Mexicans ! - Scherpschutter

Trivia

Followed by Pyramid of the Sun God

External Links

• Internet Movie Database