The most popular author ever to write in German: Karl May's books have sold 200 million copies. The famous series of “Eurowesterns” based on the novels of Karl May about the Apache leader Winnetou and his white “blood brother” Old Shetterhand. “Movie about Indians” by DEFA film studio: “The title of the film does not matter. In each of them, Gojko Mitic is in excellent athletic shape.” In the 60s, the leaders of the Redskins became legends on both sides of the Berlin Wall. You have in your hands the first Russian-language and one of the most complete studies in the world of the images of the literary heroes of Karl May and German films about the conquest of the Wild West. This work continues the project of the publishing house UFO and journalist Andrei Shary “Idols of our childhood”, begun by the books “Sign 007: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” and “Sign F: Fantômas in books and on the screen.”

The author sincerely thanks Berlin journalist Yuri Wexler and German film scholar Frank Burkhard Habel for their help in working on the book.