---
title: 'The Treasure of Silver Lake (1962)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Harald Reinl'
released: '1962-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 111
genres:
  - 'Western'
countries:
  - 'Yugoslavia'
  - 'Germany'
  - 'France'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-treasure-of-silver-lake-1962'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056452/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Treasure of Silver Lake (1962)

1962 · 111 min · Western · Yugoslavia, Germany, France

Original title: Der Schatz im Silbersee

## Synopsis

Treasure of Silver Lake is a 1962 Western film directed by Harald Reinl, loosely based on German author Karl May's 1891 novel of the same name. It was the first in a highly-successful series of films based on May's works by the West German studios Rialto and Constantin Film, starring American actor Lex Barker as the frontiersman Old Shatterhand and French actor Pierre Brice as the Apache warrior Winnetou.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Harald Reinl](https://cinepixo.com/people/harald-reinl)
- **Screenplay:** [Harald G. Petersson](https://cinepixo.com/people/harald-g-petersson)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Martin Böttcher](https://cinepixo.com/people/martin-bottcher)
- **Producer:** [Horst Wendlandt](https://cinepixo.com/people/horst-wendlandt)
- **Director of Photography:** [Ernst Wilhelm Kalinke](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernst-wilhelm-kalinke)
- **Editor:** [Hermann Haller](https://cinepixo.com/people/hermann-haller)

## Cast

- [Lex Barker](https://cinepixo.com/people/lex-barker)
- [Uwe Friedrichsen](https://cinepixo.com/people/uwe-friedrichsen)
- [Eddi Arent](https://cinepixo.com/people/eddi-arent)
- [Ilija Ivezić](https://cinepixo.com/people/ilija-ivezic)
- [Benno Gellenbeck](https://cinepixo.com/people/benno-gellenbeck)
- [Karin Dor](https://cinepixo.com/people/karin-dor)
- [Vladimir Medar](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-medar)
- [Slobodan Dimitrijević](https://cinepixo.com/people/slobodan-dimitrijevic)
- [Götz George](https://cinepixo.com/people/gotz-george)
- [Rudolf Fenner](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudolf-fenner)
- [Rolf Mamero](https://cinepixo.com/people/rolf-mamero)
- [Pierre Brice](https://cinepixo.com/people/pierre-brice)
- [Josef Dahmen](https://cinepixo.com/people/josef-dahmen)
- [Antun Nalis](https://cinepixo.com/people/antun-nalis)
- [Branko Špoljar](https://cinepixo.com/people/branko-spoljar)

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