Time of the vultures
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Time of the vultures |
| Original title | The tempo degli avvoltoi |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 95 (German version 84) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nando Cicero |
| script | Fulvio Gicca Palli |
| production | Pier Ludovico Pavoni |
| music | Piero Umiliani |
| camera | Fausto Rossi |
| cut | Renato Cinquini |
| occupation | |
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Zeit der Geier (Original title: Il tempo degli avvoltoi ) is the title of a Spaghetti Western by director Nando Cicero from 1967 with George Hilton and Frank Wolff in the leading roles. The German-language premiere was on October 25, 1968. The alternative title is branded .
action
A cattle keeper named Kitosh works for the landowner Don Jaime. When Kitosch is discovered with Don Jaime's wife, he is cruelly tortured. However, he manages to escape from the ranch. On arrival in the next town he tries to ask the sheriff for protection, because Don Jaime has put his people on Kitosh. Instead of getting help, however, he is arrested and imprisoned to be handed over to the men of the influential landowner.
At the same time, a wanted criminal named Joshua Tracy is arrested in the town. But during the search of the man, the sheriff's helpers overlook a Derringer pocket pistol, which he uses shortly afterwards and ultimately kills all the local law enforcement officers. He also releases Kitosch, the only prisoner. Kitosch thinks he owes Tracy's debt for this gesture. And so he follows and helps him with some criminal ventures. It gradually turns out that Tracy doesn't seem such a noble person after all. Rather, more and more sadistic traits emerge in his behavior.
His main concern is to get revenge on his ex-wife and her new lover, Big John, who stole his wife and property. After Tracy burned his former girlfriend, who is also blind, and Big John crucified at the door of his house, as he swore to him a long time ago, Kitosch is no longer behind his liberator. The two are becoming more and more hostile. Kitosch also wants to settle accounts with Don Jaime. He and Tracy kidnap the rich man's lover. They then demand a larger sum of ransom, which Don Jaime also wants to pay after several unsuccessful attempts at liberation. At the handover, Tracy suddenly wants the money for herself and shoots Kitosch, who fires back. Tracy dies from his injuries. Don Jaime wants to hand over the money to Kitosch, whom Tracy has apparently missed. But Kitosch pushes the ransom back into his hand, leaves the church where the handover took place, mounts his horse and rides away. Don Jaime's lover then discovers blood on her husband's hands, but he has no injury. They realize too late that Kitosch was wounded after all. The final shot shows the dying man riding away on his horse.
criticism
"Poor, brutal spaghetti western, brought to the length of a feature film with cynicisms."
"Mediocre Western ... which the beautiful Spanish landscapes cannot raise above average"
The Italian critics criticized the pronounced sadism of the film, which was the only thing with which it could compete with genre works by Vancini and the other intellectual directors, because a political message was not to be found here.
Web links
- Time of vultures in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The film at comingsoon (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Time of the Vultures. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Ulrich P. Bruckner: For a few more corpses
- ↑ movie Mese, Vol. 8.9, September 1967