Django - The night of the long knives

Movie
German title	Django - The night of the long knives
Original title	Ciakmull
Country of production	Italy
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1970
length	95 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Enzo Barboni; (as EB Clucher )
script	Mario Di Nardo ; Franco Rossetti
production	Manolo Bolognini
music	Riz Ortolani
camera	Mario Montuori
cut	Eugenio Alabiso
occupation
	Leonard Mann : Chuck Moll; Woody Strode : Woody; Peter Martell : Silver; Luigi Montefiori : Hondo ; (as Luca Montefiori ); Helmuth Schneider : John Caldwell; Lucio Rosato : Tom Rooker; Alain Corot : Alan Caldwell ; (as Alain Nayà ); Giuseppe Lauricella : Rooker; Dino Strano : Ben; Andrea Aureli : Santiago ; (as Andrew Ray ); Enzo Fiermonte : Sheriff; Luciano Rossi : poker player; Vittorio Fanfoni; Silvana Bacci : Saloon girl; Umberto Di Grazia; Salvatore Billa; Romano Puppo; Ida Galli : Sheila ; (as Ewelin Stewart );

Django - The Night of the Long Knives (Original title: Ciakmull ) is a spaghetti western , which received its German premiere on August 7 1970th

action

In a lunatic asylum fire set up to cover up a bank robbery, many inmates die; four manage to escape. One of the bank robbers recognizes one of the fugitives, an amnesiac young man, whispers "Chuck Moll" to him - and dies. The so-called now tries with his companions to solve the riddle of his past, which led to his loss of memory and admission to the madhouse. In the village of Oxeca he is referred to as his brother by a young man; he also seems to have a reputation as a gunslinger. His brother persuades him to pay his respects to the local tyrant, Joe Caldwell, on one of his nightly visits to the cemetery. Chuck Moll learns that Caldwell is his father; the alleged brother belongs to the rooker family at odds with Caldwell, who took advantage of Ciak Moll's condition. Thanks to his companions, a murder is prevented, but events soon reveal that Chuck Moll was brought into his new family as a bastard by his father. The tangled relationships and emotions discharge in a violent finale in which Chuck Moll can prevail against his actual brother Alan, who had attacked him in the past so that he lost his memory.

criticism

While the lexicon of international films only saw a "brutal series Italo-Western of inferior quality", Christian Keßler sees it as a real pearl of the B-Western, which combines good staging with a mildly unusual story and creates considerable tension .

Remarks

Enzo Barboni's directorial debut is his only serious western.

Web links

Django - The Night of the Long Knives in theInternet Movie Database(English)
The film at comingsoon.it

Individual evidence

↑ Django - The Night of the Long Knives. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
↑ Christian Keßler: Welcome to Hell. 2002, pp. 55/56

[1] Django - The Night of the Long Knives. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .

[2] Christian Keßler: Welcome to Hell. 2002, pp. 55/56