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Karl May

Karl May (1974)

Drama | 187 minutes
4,50 1 votes

Genre: Drama / Biography

Duration: 187 minuten

Country: West Germany

Directed by: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Stars: Helmut Käutner, Kristina Söderbaum and Käthe Gold

IMDb score: 7,0 (191)

Releasedate: 18 October 1974

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Karl May plot

The popular German writer Karl May comes from a poor family and has a difficult childhood. He has to spend a lot of time in jail for all kinds of crimes. Yet this does not prevent him from becoming the most famous novelist of the time of Kaiser Wilhelm II. However, the great reader success cannot save him from a great disappointment: he is destroyed by a smear campaign, organized by people who begrudge him his fame and abuse his "bad" childhood for this.

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Helmut Käutner Helmut Käutner

Karl May

Kristina Söderbaum Kristina Söderbaum

Emma May

Käthe Gold Käthe Gold

Klara May

Attila Hörbiger Attila Hörbiger

Schriftsteller Dittrich

Rudolf Fernau Rudolf Fernau

Anwalt Bredereck

Lil Dagover Lil Dagover

Berta von Suttner

Mady Rahl Mady Rahl

Pauline Münchmeyer

Rudolf Prack Rudolf Prack

Sächsischer Justizminister

Alexander Golling Alexander Golling

Möbelhändler Fischer

Wolfgang Büttner Wolfgang Büttner

Kriminalgerichtsvorsitzender Ehricke

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