The Pyramid of the Sun God

The Pyramid of the Sun God
The Pyramid of the Sun God
Directed by	Robert Siodmak
Written by	Karl May (novel); Ladislas Fodor; Georg Marischka; Robert A. Stemmle
Produced by	Artur Brauner; Götz Dieter Wulf
Starring	Lex Barker; Gérard Barray; Michèle Girardon
Cinematography	Siegfried Hold
Edited by	Walter Wischniewsky
Music by	Erwin Halletz
Production; companies	CCC Film; Avala Film; Franco London Films
Distributed by	Gloria Film
Release date	17 April 1965;
Running time	102 minutes
Countries	France; Italy; West Germany; Yugoslavia
Language	German

The Pyramid of the Sun God (German: Die Pyramide des Sonnengottes is a 1965 West German and Italian western film adventure directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Lex Barker, Gérard Barray and Michèle Girardon. It is based on a book by Karl May, and was part of a boom of Karl May adaptations during the decade.^[1] It follows on from The Treasure of the Aztecs (1965), also directed by Siodmak and featuring substantially the same cast.

It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Veljko Despotovic and Hertha Hareiter and Otto Pischinger. Rio Grande

Cast

Lex Barker as Dr. Karl Sternau
Michèle Girardon as Josefa Cortejo
Gérard Barray as Count Alfonso di Rodriganda y Sevilla
Hans Nielsen as Don Pedro Arbellez
Rik Battaglia as Captain Lazaro Verdoja
Gustavo Rojo as Lieutenant Potoca
Theresa Lorca as Karja
Ralf Wolter as Andreas Hasenpfeffer
Kelo Henderson as Frank Wilson
Alessandra Panaro as Rosita Arbellez
Jean-Roger Caussimon as Marshall Bazaine
Antun Nalis as Pablo Cortejo
Vladimir Popovic as Black Deer
Branimir Tori Jankovic as Panteo
Nada Radovic as Big India Rio Grande film

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 Pyramid of the Sun God at IMDb

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[1] Bergfelder p.188

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v t e Films directed by Robert Siodmak
Europe 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)
Hollywood 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)
Europe 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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