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Lex Barker - Westernheld und Playboy

10/01/2023

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0hr 53min

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Documentary

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Lex Barker
  • Carmen G. Cervera
  • Karen Kondazian
  • Matthias Wendlandt
  • Brett Halsey

    Director

  • Wolf von Truchsess

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Westend Film & TV
  • ZDF
  • ARTE

    Production Countries

  • Germany

LANGUAGES

  • German
  • English
  • Italian

Cast

Lex Barker

Self - Portrait Subject (archive footage)

Carmen G. Cervera

Self - Interviewee

Karen Kondazian

Self - Interviewee

Brett Halsey

Self - Interviewee

Wolfgang M. Schmitt

Self - Interviewee

Christopher Barker

Self - Interviewee

Elisabeth Bronfen

Self - Interviewee

Jan-Christopher Horak

Self - Interviewee

Karl Schlömer

Self - Interviewee

Kendall Old Elk

Self - Interviewee

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