Django does not speak the Lord's Prayer

Movie
German title	Django does not speak the Lord's Prayer
Original title	Quel caldo maledetto giorno di fuoco
Country of production	Italy , Spain
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1968
length	100 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Paolo Bianchini
script	José Luis Merino Claudio Failoni Franco Calderoni Paolo Bianchini
production	Edmondo Amati
music	Piero Piccioni
camera	Francisco Marín
cut	Vincenzo Tomassi
occupation
Robert Woods : Cpt. Chris Tanner John Ireland : Tarpas Ida Galli : Belinda Boyd (as Evelyn Stewart ) Claudie Lange : Martha Simpson Gérard Herter : Mr. Bishop Tiziano Cortini : Jonathan Wallace (as Lewis Jordan ) Ennio Balbo : Bruce Gatling (as Ennio Baldo ) Roberto Camardiel : Dr. Alan Curtis George Rigaud : Ryckert Rada Rassimov : Mrs. Treble Tom Felleghy : Pinkerton Furio Meniconi : Jeremiah Grant Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia : one of Tarpas' people Corrado Sonni : General Thompson Fernando Bilbao : Scott Grant Antonio Alfonso : Tim Grant Ugo Adinolfi

Django speaks no Our Father (original title: Quel caldo maledetto giorno di fuoco ) is a spaghetti western from 1968, the heyday of the genre. The film, directed by Paolo Bianchini , premiered on February 27, 1970 in German-speaking countries.

action

During the Civil War , Richard Jordan Gatling worked on a secret weapon, the Gatling bolt-action gun . US President Abraham Lincoln then sends a commission to Gatling to inspect the weapon. The government employees are murdered at night, however, and Gatling and his invention are kidnapped. Only two people survived the attack: Commissioner Pinkerton and Captain Chris Tanner.

The latter is found guilty of murder and awaits execution by the gallows. Pinkerton, however, is convinced of Tanner's innocence; he arranges a secret prisoner exchange, with another man being smuggled into Tanner's prison cell. The freed Tanner now has four weeks - the time to execution - to save Gatling, recover the gun before it falls into the hands of the Confederates , and thus prove his innocence.

His opponents are the brutal half-Indian Tarpas and the Northerner Rykert, also a member of the commission, who only faked his death. Both want to deliver the kidnapped Gatling for a ransom to the Northerners for a million dollars each, and independently of that, to deliver his invention to the Southerners. Chris Tanner finally sees through the game and succeeds in confronting and defeating the criminals.

Publications

The German-language premiere took place on February 27, 1970 in the distribution of the Film Agency South in a version approved by the FSK for ages 18 and over. The label Arcade Video published Django speaks no Our Father in the following years on VHS in an unchecked version. A DVD version of Savory Film released in January 2013 contains an additional dialogue scene in the original Italian with German subtitles, which is presumably not available in any of the previous versions.

criticism

Segnalazione Cinematografiche considered the story "a spy story relocated to the West"; the lexicon of international film found the “template-like mixture” of genres brutal. Christian Keßler, on the other hand, praised the solid basic idea of ​​the film, but found the somewhat cumbersome narrative method unsuitable for the Western genre. The director ensures with a sure hand that the film can still be viewed.

Web links

• Django does not speak the Lord's Prayer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Django does not speak the Lord's Prayer in All Movie Guide (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ LXVI, 1969, quoted from Dizionario del Cinema Italiano, I film Vol. 3, p. 424
2. ↑ Django does not speak the Lord's Prayer. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
3. ↑ in: Welcome to Hell. 2002, p. 203