- Due to legal differences the music has been altered in the VHS and DVD releases and will remain altered in all subsequent TV and cinema screenings: The original main theme has been re-composed and during the end credits a new original song replaces Lou Bega's "Keep on smiling".
- Several scenes were scripted and filmed but not included in the final cut (however, some outtakes from the scenes are showed during the end credits):
- an alternative beginning influenced by Sergio Leone western movies;
- an extended scene in which Ranger goes through the town and townsmen are escaping;
- several extended parts of scenes who remained in the film (e. g. a longer conversation with Karl May);
- an extended scene with Winnetouch and Hombre; an extended scene with Dimitri in the burning ranch;
- the Schoschonen arriving at the Puder Rosa ranch;
- a scene with Dimitri before the cave;
- a love scene with Ranger and Uschi at night.
- In the summer of 2002 the film was re-released in Germany as "Der Schuh des Manitu - Extra Large" with 8 minutes of newly shot footage. This footage is called "The Prologue" and deals with the birth and childhood of the main characters Winnetouch and Abahachi.
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