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Lex Barker - Westernheld und Playboy (2023)

ALL 10/01/2023 (de) Documentary, TV Movie 53 Min
  • Release
    10/01/2023
  • Production
    Westend Film & TV, ZDF, ARTE
  • Rotten tomato
    80%
  • Original title
    Lex Barker - Westernheld und Playboy
  • Original language
    de
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

He is the most sought-after man in Europe in the 1960s. Lex Barker embodies the flawless hero in his films and, as Old Shatterhand, becomes a role model for generations of fans. Revered in Europe, misunderstood and almost forgotten in his native America. But who was this American who rode through Yugoslavia in a leather costume for the European audience? In 1973, Lex Barker died of a heart attack on the streets of Manhattan in New York. But no one recognizes the man who was Tarzan in Hollywood. Nobody knows him or cares about that he, as Winnetou's friend, is revered as an icon in Europe. Lex Barker's European western adventures are just a footnote in American film history. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death, the documentary tells the story of one of the most beautiful men who ever flickered across Europe's cinema screens, for whom European cinema proved to be a stroke of luck and for whom a failed Hollywood career took him via Italy to Germany.

  2. Story



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  1. Lex Barker

    Self - Portrait Subject (archive footage)

  2. Carmen G. Cervera

    Self - Interviewee

  3. Karen Kondazian

    Self - Interviewee

  4. Matthias Wendlandt

    Self - Interviewee

  5. Brett Halsey

    Self - Interviewee

  6. Clemens Meyer

    Self - Interviewee

  7. Wolfgang M. Schmitt

    Self - Interviewee

  8. Christopher Barker

    Self - Interviewee

  9. Reiner Boller

    Self - Interviewee

  10. Elisabeth Bronfen

    Self - Interviewee

  11. Jan-Christopher Horak

    Self - Interviewee

  12. Joachim Gitt

    Self - Interviewee

  13. Karl Schlömer

    Self - Interviewee

  14. Kendall Old Elk

    Self - Interviewee

  15. Pierre Brice

    als er selbst (archive footage)

  16. Horst Wendlandt

    als er selbst (archive footage)

  17. Gergana Muskalla

    Self - Narrator (voice)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 17 , Crews : 16

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Lex Barker - Westernheld und Playboy (2023) 53 Min

ALL 10/01/2023 (de)
Documentary, TV Movie
  • Release 10/01/2023
  • Production
    Westend Film & TV, ZDF, ARTE
  • Original title Lex Barker - Westernheld und Playboy
  • de
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

He is the most sought-after man in Europe in the 1960s. Lex Barker embodies the flawless hero in his films and, as Old Shatterhand, becomes a role model for generations of fans. Revered in Europe, misunderstood and almost forgotten in his native America. But who was this American who rode through Yugoslavia in a leather costume for the European audience? In 1973, Lex Barker died of a heart attack on the streets of Manhattan in New York. But no one recognizes the man who was Tarzan in Hollywood. Nobody knows him or cares about that he, as Winnetou's friend, is revered as an icon in Europe. Lex Barker's European western adventures are just a footnote in American film history. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death, the documentary tells the story of one of the most beautiful men who ever flickered across Europe's cinema screens, for whom European cinema proved to be a stroke of luck and for whom a failed Hollywood career took him via Italy to Germany.

  1. Andreas G. Wagner

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Tom Weichenhain

    Editor

  4. Hannah Altschuck, Wolf von Truchsess, Lisa-Marie Voß

    Producer



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