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.

• RTL Television
• Rat Pack Filmproduktion
• Wotan Wilke Möhring
• Nik Xhelilaj
• Iazua Larios
• Jürgen Vogel
• Rainer Bock
• Leslie Malton
• Milan Peschel
• Gojko Mitić