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Eureka Entertainment announced that ADVENTURE CALLS! Karl May at CCC, a Blu-ray collection that is limited to just 2,000 copies, streets in North America April 28, 2026. Seven movies adapted from May’s classic novels are featured in the four-disc set. More details are featured in our post!
Presented as part of The Masters of Cinema Series, the collection includes a Limited hardbound slipcase and a 60-page collector’s book.
Acclaimed film noir director Robert Siodmak (The Killers) directed The Pyramid of The Sun God and The Treasure of the Aztecs and those are the movies I would gravitate to if I had the collection. I grew up watching Lex Barker Tarzan films, and I had no idea about these Karl May adventure flicks. Other filmmakers who directed these German adventure films include Hugo Fregonese, Franz Josef Gottlieb and Harald Reinl.
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The movies that are part of the collection are: Old Shatterhand, Winnetou and Shatterhand in the Valley of Death, The Shoot, Through Wild Kurdistan, In the Kingdom of the Silver Lion, The Treasure of the Aztecs and The Pyramid of the Sun God.
LIMITED EDITION FOUR-DISC BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES*:
• Limited Edition of 2,000 copies
• Limited Edition Hardbound Slipcase
• 1080p HD presentations of all seven features from 4K restorations of the original camera negatives undertaken by CCC Film
• Original German audio tracks
• Optional English subtitles, newly revised for this release
• New introductions to each film by Sir Christopher Frayling, author of Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone
• New audio commentaries on Old Shatterhand and The Treasure of the Aztecs by film historian David Kalat
• Karl May at CCC – new interview with producer Alice Brauner, managing director of CCC Film and daughter of CCC founder Artur Brauner
• Prodigal Son – new interview with film historian Sheldon Hall on the late career of Robert
Siodmak
• Archival making of documentary on Old Shatterhand and Winnetou and Shatterhand in the
Valley of Death
• Archival featurette on Daliah Lavi, star of Old Shatterhand
• Archival interview with Bernhard Schmid, co-editor and contributor to Karl May Verlag
• Archival featurette on the restoration of The Shoot, Through Wild Kurdistan and In the Kingdom of the Silver Lion
• Archival news footage on The Shoot
• Original theatrical trailers
• Limited Edition 60-page collector’s book featuring new writing on Karl May on page and screen by German popular cinema experts Tim Bergfelder and Holger Haase, a profile of Lex Barker by Boris Brosowski and an essay on Old Shatterhand and Winnetou by Lee Broughton, author of The Euro-Western.
*All extras are subject to change
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