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Cinematography
Yugoslavia standing in for the American Southwest never looked this epic.
Production
The sheer commitment to scale—thousands of extras, real locations, zero CGI.
Acting
Pierre Brice's Winnetou: dignified, doomed, and impossibly photogenic.

Director
Harald Reinl
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