Django and the gang of the hanged

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Movie
German title Django and the gang of the hanged
Original title Preparati la bara!
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1968
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Ferdinando Baldi
script Ferdinando Baldi
Franco Rossetti
production Manolo Bolognini
music Gianfranco Reverberi
camera Enzo Barboni
cut Eugenio Alabiso
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Django and the gang of the hanged (original title: Preparati la bara! ) Is a spaghetti western by Ferdinando Baldi from 1968 with Terence Hill in the leading role. The film's re-release title in abbreviated, re-dubbed form was Joe the Gallows Bird ; other German titles are Viva Django and Django - his hatred is deadly .

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Django (Joe) is a gunslinger who wants to retire from the business and start a family. David Barry, an old friend, asks him for help with his plan to be elected governor. Django refuses because he has pledged to escort a shipment of gold for federal agencies. During the journey, the convoy is attacked by a gang hired by David, led by the gunslinger Lukas. The entire cargo is stolen and the escort team and Django's wife are killed. He miraculously survived. Django seeks revenge and becomes the district executioner . Thanks to his new post, he is able to save some of David's condemned deaths with the help of a device.

With these men he thirsts for revenge. He forges a plan to get revenge on Luke and David. Since Django was busy - he had to prevent the execution of Mercedes (the wife of gang member Garcia) - the gang decides to attack the gold convoy and leave for Mexico . This upsets both Django and David. Garcia kills all gang members when crossing the border into Mexico and takes all the stolen gold. Django finds the traitor Garcia with the help of his wife. To make amends for his betrayal, he should return the gold and help him conquer David. They lure David to the city's cemetery, where the gold is said to be buried. Since David Barry desperately wants to get the stolen gold, he lets the traitor Garcia lead him to the cemetery.

Django is supposedly digging for the gold next to his wife's grave. After David and Garcia arrive at the cemetery, the governor's first attempts to persuade him to give him the gold fail. There is a brief exchange of fire, whereupon an armed group comes to the governor's aid. David tries again to persuade Django to share the gold. However, he continues to dig impassively. In this hopeless situation, Garcia Django wants to come to the rescue, but is immediately shot by David's gang. Django then takes a machine gun from the open coffin and shoots David's gang. David is shot in the head by Django. At the end Django gives Garcia's widow part of the loot of the stolen gold and says goodbye to the city.

criticism

The lexicon of international films found that the original version of the film was a brutal spaghetti western with numerous beatings and murder scenes. The Protestant film observer also comes to a similar assessment : "Westerns from Italy that do not save on cruelty, like its predecessors, portray brutality as a necessary element of entertainment."

Remarks

Nicola Di Bari sings the film songs : Viva Django! , You'd Better Smile and Cosa va le un uomo .

German versions

There are two German versions of this film. The first was made in 1968 by the Berliner Union-Film and was released in cinemas under the title Django and the gang of the hanged . The dialogue book was written by Ursula Buschow and directed by Karlheinz Brunnemann . Terence Hill will be dubbed by Rainer Brandt and Horst Frank by Christian Brückner . This version is unabridged.

A second version was created in 1979 under the title Joe, the Gallows Bird . The film was shortened by about 6 minutes and provided with a comedy synchro based on the Schnodderdeutsch dubbing by Karlheinz Brunnemann and Rainer Brandt . The second dubbed version was made at MGS-Synchron GmbH in Düsseldorf. Hill was spoken by his regular speaker Thomas Danneberg and Horst Frank by Edgar Ott . This version is rated as rather unsuccessful, but was nevertheless the basis for TV broadcasts for years and thus the only available version:

“This new version [...] robs the film of all meaning, looks silly and probably wants to give the impression that Bud Spencer will show up at any moment, because people are constantly talking about fat. In short: Joe, the gallows bird doesn't work at all and turns a tough western that is well worth seeing into a slapstick [...] "

- Tobias Hohmann: Bud Spencer and Terence Hill - two sky dogs with four fists

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Django and the gang of the hanged. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 312/1968.
  3. ↑ Segnalazioni Cinematografiche , Vol. 64, 1968
  4. ↑ Django and the gang of the hanged. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b Tobias Hohmann: Bud Spencer and Terence Hill - Two Heavenly Dogs with Four Fists, 2011, p. 71.
  6. ↑ Django and the gang of the hanged. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .