Winnetou reunion of Uschi Glas and Hill: “Terence remains my Super Mario” | Entertainment

2023-12-12 07:27:52

He simply remains a legendary rascal…

“My darling back then weighed almost 200 kilos. But it’s still in good shape today…”

That’s what cult actor Terence Hill (84, “My name is Nobody”) says with a rascal’s smile when looking at a black and white photo from spring 1967 in an interview with BILD.

27 year old Mario Girotti (Hill’s birth name) with young Uschi Glas (now 79).

In the mid-60s they were two of the hottest young cinema stars and are legends today: Terence Hil (then still “Mario Girotti”) and Uschi Glas

Photo: Markus Zoelch / Terence Hill private archive

HE – after four Winnetou films and before major successes with Bud Spencer († 86), a new star in the cinema sky. SHE, at 21, was just fresh into the business as “Halbblut Apanatschi” (1966) and a short time later she became the favorite of the entire nation with the film “Zur Sache, Schatztchen” (1968).

Photo: U. Röhnert

56 years ago, both of them were on a stroll around Munich in a BMW R 69 S (42 hp, 175 km/h top speed). With his comparison, Hill is of course referring to the motorcycle. A dream that he allowed himself back then: “The machine still exists. Like us …”

The actor, who adopted the stage name “Terence” a few months later, is now considered Germany’s most successful cinema star with more than 110 million viewers.

Mario Girotti and Pierre Brice in „Winnetou 2“ (1964)

Foto: ddp images

Hill came to Munich as a surprise guest for the anniversary performance of the restored classic “Winnetou 1” with guest of honor Mario Adorf (93, played villain “Santer”). The filmmakers from Rialto and Tobis have made the Karl May film more colorful and sharp than ever before.

Mario Adorf in his iconic role as Winnetou villain “Santer” at the age of 33. 60 years later, the film is being shown newly restored

Photo: Allstar/Rialto

Always trying out something new and learning is a given for cinema maestro Adorf (“The Tin Drum”). This also includes the warm reunion after many years with the friends and companions of yesteryear: “You are still learning something new. Today, after all these years, I realize that our names are both Mario Matteo. Our stories are similar. German moms, Italian dads. Maybe we can get in front of the camera together again. I heard my friend is doing another western…”

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Uschi Glas would also be there. Even if the careers of all three film stars really took off with their appearances in the box office hits about the great chief of all Apaches Winnetou (Pierre Brice, died at 86). No combination of the legendary trio stood together in front of the Western camera. But of course they often met at premieres. Hill and Adorf also lived in Rome at the same time for many years and valued each other as actors and people.

Nice meeting at the revival of “Winnetou 1”, in which Mario Adorf (l.) played the villain “Santer”: actress Gisela Hahn sits next to him, then Terence Hill and Uschi Glas in the Astor Munich

Photo: Marcus Zoelch

The good news for the fans. They all still enjoy exciting stories. Uschi Glas would be there again and enjoyed meeting her motorcycle partner, who back in the 1960s still had his other first name: “Terence remains my Super Mario. I’m happy to see both Super Marios again.”