Chamaco
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Chamaco |
| Original title | Killer kid |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 103 (German cinema version 88) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Leopoldo Savona |
| script |
Sergio Garrone Ottavio Poggi Leopoldo Savona |
| production | Elsio Mancuso |
| music | Berto Pisano |
| camera | Sandro Mancuso |
| cut | Luciano Anconetani |
| occupation | |
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Chamaco (original title: Killer Kid ) is a spaghetti western from 1967, staged by Leopoldo Savona with Anthony Steffen in the lead role. The film was released in German-speaking cinemas on May 20, 1968.
action
The US Army Officer Morris is tasked with stopping the illegal arms trafficking on the Mexican border. In order to get close to the people involved, he assumes the identity of a dreaded pistol hero, the Killer Kid (in the German-language version Chamaco ). In this role he meets many Mexican farm workers under the leader El Santo, whose fate impresses him, and Mercedes Hernandez, with whom he falls in love, so that he changes sides and supports the revolution.
criticism
The lexicon of international films, which is quite critical of genre films, judged in this case: “Atmospherically dense, exciting spaghetti westerns.” On the other hand, the Italian criticism felt: “This is a story told according to the usual Western scheme, whose historical references remain arbitrary. The whole company doesn’t exceed mediocrity in anything. ” Christian Keßler and Ulrich P. Bruckner classify the film as a good action average.
synchronization
Anthony Steffen will be spoken by Harald Leipnitz , Fernando Sancho by Bum Krüger .
Remarks
One of several films in the western genre with the leading roles Anthony Steffen and Fernando Sancho.
Versions of the film of different lengths existed; the Italian and German were 88 minutes long, the French 100 and the world's longest 103 minutes. The latter is available on DVD from Koch Media .
The film was shot in the Elios studios and in the Cinecittà .
Web links
- Chamaco in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The film at comingsoon
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chamaco. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Segnalazione Cinematografiche Vol. 65, 1968
- ↑ Keßler: Welcome to Hell. 2002, p. 129; Bruckner: For a few more corpses. Munich 2006, p. 606
- ^ R. Poppi, M. Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film Vol. 3. Gremese, 1992, p. 284
- ↑ ibid.