"Mein Bruder," says Old Shatterhand on screen.Dragan pauses. Moj brate? No, too simple. Krvni brate? Better.
He works through the night, timing the subtitles to the heroic swells of Martin Böttcher’s score. He knows that in a few weeks, in packed cinema halls from Niš to Novi Sad, kids will lean forward in their seats, reading his white-lettered text: (As long as the sun shines, our friendship will last.) Winnetou subtitles Serbian
On the wall, the legendary Apache chief raises his silver-studded rifle. The film is a German-Yugoslav co-production, filmed in the rugged canyons of Paklenica, but the dialogue is in German. Dragan’s task? To bridge the gap between the Teutonic script and the Balkan soul. "Mein Bruder," says Old Shatterhand on screen