The first part, "A New World", tells how the young German engineer Karl May comes to America and starts to work for a railway company in the Wild West. Under dramatic circumstances, he meets Apache chief Winnetou and becomes friends with him and his tribe. The Apaches give it the name Old Shatterhand. Together they fight now against the unscrupulous henchmen of the railway company, who wants to lay a route through the Indian area.
Wotan Wilke Möhring
as Old Shatterhand
Nik Xhelilaj
as Winnetou
Iazua Larios
as Nscho Tschi
Jürgen Vogel
as Josef Rattler
Rainer Bock
as James Bancroft
Leslie Malton
as Mrs. Bancroft
Milan Peschel
as Sam Hawkens
Gojko Mitić
as Intschu Tschuna
Francisco Medina
as Mavi Takeh
Oliver Masucci
as Ugly Joe
Mirco Kreibich
as Journalist
Marie Versini
as Woman on Train
