Winnetou Returns (TV)

Winnetous Rückkehr – German title

Winnetou Returns – English title

A 1997 German television production [Regina Ziegler Filmproduktion]

Producer: Mariette Rissenbeek      

Director: Marijan D. Vajda (Marijan David Vajda)

Story: Werner Waldhoff, Pierre Brice, Jean-Claude Deret

Teleplay: Werner Waldhoff, Pierre Brice, Jean-Claude Deret

Photography: Eberhard Geick, Martin Stingl [color]

Music: Martin Bottcher

Running time: 171 minutes

Cast:

Winnetou – Pierre Brice (Pierre de Bris)

Mary – Candice Daly

John Mayotte – Pierre Semmler

Spencer – Tobias Hoesl (Tobias Hosl)

Hermann – Christoph Moosbrugger

Timmy Mayotte – Manuel Trautsch

Robert DeWill – Juraj Kukura

Steven Shagan – Diego Wallraff

Balthasar – Calvin Burke

Tanka – Buffal Child (Buffalo Child Koopeoequancit)

Little Beaver – Lowell Raven

Tah-Sha-Tunga – Jimmy Herman

Wash-Ti – Jonathan Joss

Kish-Kao-Ko/Chichuahua – Patrice Martinez (Maria Vargas)

Heather – Katy Maróthy

Fred – Erwin Leder

Crow Chief – Paco Fuentes

Gunman – Bernhard Bettermann

Erika Hanson – Cornelia Corba

Assiniboin – Edy Barber

Sven – Nikolaus Gröbe

Quakers – Detlef Bothe, Martin Dutrop, Sylvie Nogler

With: Carlos Lucas (Carlos Ampuero), Diego Jiminez Flores

Stunt coordinator: Ricardo Cruz

Winnetou has survived and now lives in the hills. He doesn't want to see other people, but when a group of settlers and a befriended tribe of Indians are threatened by some bandits, he comes to help.

Winnetou’s Return is a two-part television production. It was inspired by the books of Karl May and produced in 1998 for the German ZDF television network  with Pierre Brice in the title role.

The first part and the second part can be regarded as independent films because, although the second part is based on the first, but the plot is designed so that they can understand even without the first part.

YouTube film clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0kQQqz24L8