Chatos land
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Chatos land |
| Original title | Chato's land |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1972 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Winner |
| script | Gerald Wilson |
| production | Michael Winner |
| music | Jerry Fielding |
| camera | Robert Paynter |
| cut | Frederick Wilson |
| occupation | |
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Chatos Land (Original title: Chato's Land ) is a British western directed by Michael Winner from 1972 with Charles Bronson in the lead role.
action
The half-blood Indian Chato buys groceries in a town and then orders a drink in the saloon . He is mocked, threatened and discriminated against by the city sheriff. Finally, the sheriff reaches for the revolver, whereupon Chato quickly pulls his own and shoots the sheriff. Chato then flees the city. It doesn't take long and the whole city is talking about it. The residents, who are already a thorn in the side of the Indians, are now even more angry and upset. Civil War veteran Quincy Whitmore then unceremoniously puts together a group to hunt down and kill Chato.
After a long and dusty ride into the desert, the group comes across a stone house where Chato, his wife and son live. Only the woman is in the house, Chato is absent and the son is in the vicinity, so that he is not seen by the men. The men rape the woman and take her hostage. The son observes this and runs to befriended or related Indians, whom he reports about the crime.
The Indians free the woman, but Chato's brother is shot. The men hang him with their feet over a pyre, which they light. One of the men shoots Chato's brother, apparently to end his suffering.
The group moves on to hunt Chato, but their strength continues to wane. The water is running out, there are more and more serious disputes within the group and they are hopelessly lost in the barren land.
Now is the time for Chato's revenge; he lies in wait for the group in the mountains and starts killing them one by one. The hunted became the hunted so quickly. The merciless decimation by Chato's hand finally shatters the fragile unity of the group. The division into those who continue to hunt Chato and those who want to withdraw ends with some members murdering each other. When the troops are reduced to one pursuer by Chato and the mutual murders, Chato also kills him.
background
- Chatos Land was filmed in Almería ( Andalusia / Spain ).
- This is the first of a total of six films by Michael Winner and Charles Bronson together .
Reviews
The lexicon of international films judged: "Brutal Westerns tailored entirely to Charles Bronson as an Apache hybrid with superficial socially critical tones."
Joe Hembus stated that Chatos Land was "one of the few films with a compelling Native American hero and Bronson's best performance in the field."
Phil Hardy criticized Winner's directing "with their excessive use of the zoom and their ridiculous (...) day-for-night camera work."
Web links
- Chato's Land in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Chato's Land at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Chatos Land in the online film database
- Chatos Land in the German dubbing index
- Comparison of the cut versions FSK 16 VHS - FSK 16 , BBFC 18 DVD - FSK 16 DVD , US DVD - FSK 16 DVD by Chatos Land at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Chatos Land . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2004 (PDF; test number: 44 812 V / DVD).
- ↑ Filming Locations
- ↑ Trivia
- ↑ Chatos Land. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Joe Hembus: Western Lexicon - 1272 films from 1894-1975. Carl Hanser Verlag Munich Vienna 2nd edition 1977. ISBN 3-446-12189-7 . P. 86
- ^ Phil Hardy: The Encyclopedia of Western Movies. Woodbury Press Minneapolis 1984. ISBN 0-8300-0405-X . P. 330