Blood Red - Die for your country

Movie
German title	Blood Red - Die for your country
Original title	Blood Red
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1989
length	91 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Peter Masterson
script	Ron Cutler
production	John Daly Derek Gibson
music	Carmine Coppola
camera	Toyomichi Kurita
cut	Randy D. Thornton
occupation
Eric Roberts : Marco Collogero Giancarlo Giannini : Sebastian Collogero Dennis Hopper : William Bradford Berrigan Burt Young : Andrews Michael Madsen : Enzio Julia Roberts : Maria Collogero Alexandra Masterson : Anna Collogero Elias Koteas : Silvio Carlin Glynn : Miss Jefferys Lara Harris : Angelica Segestra Al Ruscio : Antonio Segestra Marc Lawrence : Michael Fazio Carol Ann Susi Segestra's first daughter

Blood Red - Die for your Land (Original title: Blood Red ) is an American feature film from 1989.

action

The Sicilian family of the Callogeros emigrates to California and runs a wine plantation there in the vicinity of several other families . Railroad entrepreneur William Bradford Berrigan is planning a railway line that will run through the vineyards. The farmers refuse to sell their land. The resistance is not only increasing verbally. The talented Marco Callogero, who loves Angelica from the rival Segestra family of wine merchants, hardly cares about the problems until Berrigan resorts to violence and has his father killed in front of his mother. Now Marco is organizing the resistance against Berrigan and his railway empire; with the help of his friends, he blows up a railway tunnel. After the violence initially escalated, Berrigan finally gives in.

criticism

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was developing from an initially “melodramatic painting of time [...] to a sometimes hard and (with the exception of the main role) well-played western.” It was “an atmospherically coherent historical picture . "

Trivia

• Julia Roberts played one of her first roles in the film as Maria Collogero. The cast took place on the intercession of her brother Eric Roberts, who was considered a promising young and future film star at the time.
• The director Peter Masterson is the father of actress Mary Stuart Masterson . His other daughter, Alexandra Masterson , played one of Marco Collogero's sisters in the film.

literature

• Meinolf Zurhorst : Julia Roberts. "Pretty Woman" . Heyne Filmbibliothek Volume 168. (3rd edition.) Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-453-05757-0 , pp. 16-21
• Lars Penning Julia Roberts

Web links

• Blood Red - Die for your country in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Blood Red - Die for Your Land. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .