Django sfida Sartana

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Movie
Original title Django sfida Sartana
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1970
length 89 minutes
Rod
Director Pasquale Squitieri
(as William Redford )
script Pasquale Squitieri
production Roberto Bessi for Atlas Cinematografica
music Piero Umiliani
camera Eugenio Bentivoglio
cut Pasquale Squitieri
occupation

Django sfida Sartana ( Italian for "Django Sartana challenges") is a 1970 directed by Pasquale Squitieri incurred spaghetti westerns . The film has not yet been released in the German-speaking area.

action

Bounty hunter "Django" and his squad are successful in pacifying a larger territory, but are currently encountering an ambush by the bandit Juan Corvo; Ultimately, both leaders agree on a private duel, which the villain also wants to make unfair. Django, who reacts quickly, first kills the henchman lurking on the side and then Corvo himself. Meanwhile, the newly arrived gunslinger "Sartana" has to fight off a green-nosed challenger in the nearby town. His presence triggers great fears at the local banker Singer, and he instructs his cashier Steve - Django's brother - to deliver a substantial amount of appeasement, which Sartana angrily rejects.

A little later, Singer is gunned down by a stranger while riding, his niece Muggy is kidnapped and the bank is robbed. Suspicions are directed against Sartana and Steve, but the former has disappeared, and the previous meeting of these two men is taken by the angry residents as an indication of the cashier's involvement in the crimes; In fact, the mob who suddenly interrupts one of Steve's quirks with the attractive Maria finds the amount originally intended to bribe Sartana and lynches the innocent without further ado. When Django discovers the outrage, he immediately goes on a search for Sartana, who is responsible for his brother's death. The two rivals soon meet in the wilderness not far from a stagecoach station, put down their pistols and engage in a violent fight. It was only when "Il Muto" suddenly appeared - a dumb Mexican in the service of Django - that the madmen stopped, having found evidence that suggested that Singer had stolen from his own bank; in fact, the grave examined by the three men a little later is empty.

In a tavern they happened to find out about a "Don Felipe" who was linked to a Maria - an important clue for Django, who has since separated from Sartana. However, while investigating the property where the kidnapped niece is being held and harassed, the guards overpower him; Don Felipe identifies himself as a singer and makes fun of it, wounding the gunslinger hanging by his arms above the hacienda entrance with targeted shots. Il Muto and Sartana join the action just in time, and together the trio - the mute is an excellent knife thrower - can put an end to the villain; his playmate Maria is trampled to death by horses. Django, Muggy and Il Muto happily start their way back, also because Sartana had stolen a lot of money and jewelry from the villain couple shortly before the elimination.

criticism

Christian Keßler notes “various attempts to address the racism problem” and sums it up: “On the whole, a tolerable film at best, which one shouldn't look long for. But somebody should bring out the soundtrack. "

Segnalazioni Cinematografiche concludes: "A mediocre western with the usual characters, situations and solutions."

Remarks

The film song They call him Django is interpreted by John Balfour .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ in: Willkommen in der Hölle, 2002, p. 78