Karl May, the second part of Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's "German trilogy," explores the travel and adventure fantasies of the most popular German writer of the 19th century. As always in Syberberg's work, the music of Richard Wagner and the unreconciled ghosts of the 1930s and 1940s loom large. Appropriately, May is played by the prolific director Helmut Käutner, who made some of the most iconic German romances of the 1940s.