The Treasure of the Aztecs
1965 film
- 4 March 1965 (1965-03-04)
Running time
France
Italy
The Treasure of the Aztecs (German: Der Schatz der Azteken) is a 1965 western adventure film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Lex Barker, Gérard Barray and Michèle Girardon. It was made as a co-production between France, Italy and West Germany. It was based on a novel by Karl May, part of a boom in adaptations of the author's works during the decade.[1] It was followed by a second part The Pyramid of the Sun God (1965).
It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin and on location in Barcelona and Yugoslavia. The film sets were designed by the art directors Hertha Hareiter and Otto Pischinger. It was made in Eastmancolor.
Cast
- Lex Barker as Dr. Karl Sternau
- Gérard Barray as Count Alfonso di Rodriganda y Sevilla
- Rik Battaglia as Captain Lazaro Verdoja
- Michèle Girardon as Josefa Cortejo
- Alessandra Panaro as Rosita Arbellez
- Theresa Lorca as Karja
- Ralf Wolter as Andreas Hasenpfeffer
- Fausto Tozzi as Benito Juarez
- Hans Nielsen as Don Pedro Arbellez
- Gustavo Rojo as Lieutenant Potoca
- Kelo Henderson as Frank Wilson
- Jean-Roger Caussimon as Marshal Bazaine
- Friedrich von Ledebur as Count Fernando di Rodriganda y Sevilla
- Vladimir Popovic as Black Deer
- Jeff Corey as Abraham Lincoln
- Djordje Nenadovic as Count Embarez
See also
References
- ^ Bergfelder p.188
Bibliography
- Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books, 2005.
External links
- The Treasure of the Aztecs at IMDb
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Films directed by Robert Siodmak
1930–1939
- People on Sunday (1930)
- Farewell (1930)
- Inquest (1931)
- About an Inquest (1931, MLV)
- The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931)
- Storms of Passion (1932)
- Quick (1932)
- The Burning Secret (1933)
- The Weaker Sex (1933)
- The Crisis is Over (1934)
- La Vie parisienne (1936)
- Parisian Life (1936)
- The Great Refrain (1936)
- Compliments of Mister Flow (1936)
- White Cargo (1937)
- Mollenard (1938)
- The Corsican Brothers (1939)
- Personal Column (1939)
1941–1951
- West Point Widow (1941)
- Fly-by-Night (1942)
- The Night Before the Divorce (1942)
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942)
- Someone to Remember (1943)
- Son of Dracula (1943)
- Phantom Lady (1944)
- Cobra Woman (1944)
- Christmas Holiday (1944)
- The Suspect (1944)
- The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)
- The Spiral Staircase (1946)
- The Killers (1946)
- The Dark Mirror (1946)
- Time Out of Mind (1947)
- Cry of the City (1948)
- Criss Cross (1949)
- The Great Sinner (1949)
- The File on Thelma Jordon (1950)
- Deported (1950)
- The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951)
1952–1969
- The Crimson Pirate (1952)
- Flesh and the Woman (1954)
- Die Ratten (1955)
- My Father, the Actor (1956)
- The Devil Strikes at Night (1957)
- Dorothea Angermann (1959)
- Magnificent Sinner (1959)
- The Rough and the Smooth (1959)
- My Schoolfriend (1960)
- The Nina B. Affair (1961)
- Escape from East Berlin (1962)
- The Shoot (1964)
- The Treasure of the Aztecs (1965)
- The Pyramid of the Sun God (1965)
- Custer of the West (1967)
- Kampf um Rom (1968)
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