A hallelujah for Spirito Santo

Movie
German title	A hallelujah for Spirito Santo
Original title	Uomo avvisato mezzo ammazzato… Parola di Spirito Santo
Country of production	Italy , Spain
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1971
length	94 (German version 81) minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Giuliano Carnimeo
script	Tito Carpi Federico de Urrutia Giuliano Carnimeo
production	Luciano Martino
music	Bruno Nicolai
camera	Miguel F. Mila
cut	Ornella Micheli
occupation
Gianni Garko : Spirito Santo Pilar Velázquez : Juana Mendoza Cris Huerta : Chicken Poldo Bendandi : General Ubarte Paolo Gozlino : Sam Crow (as Paul Stevens ) Jorge Rigaud : Don Fermino Mendoza Carlo Gaddi : Capitano Fiesta Franco Pesce : Engineer Hernandez Dada Gallotti : May Nello Pazzafini : Colonel Tomas Rudy : Lieutenant Fortunato Arena : Colonel Matatodos Federico Boido : Burt Crow (as Rick Boyd ) Evi Farinelli : Wendy

Hallelujah for Spirito Santo (Original title: Uomo avvisato mezzo ammazzato ... Parola di Spirito Santo ) is a spaghetti westerns of Giuliano Carnimeo , under the name Ascott Anthony directed and thus introduced a new series of character. The German premiere of the film, infused with comedic and self-deprecating elements, took place on August 29, 1972. An alternate title is Zwei wie Blitz und Donner .

content

A group of Mexican peasants is harassed by General Ubarte's troops; quite a few are murdered. They are looking for Don Firminio Mendoza, who, like Ubarte, is making claims to the Mexican presidency. After being found, he is about to be executed when Spirito Santo ("Holy Spirit") appears, a pistol shooter with unearthly abilities, who is dressed entirely in white and is accompanied by a dove. He shoots the soldiers with a submachine gun. The farmers see him as a saint and want his support for their political goals, but he is only interested in a treasure map that he won in a card game, but part of which is missing. So he looks for the owner of the missing piece. It turns out that the treasure is hidden in the general's fort. Together with his buddies Chicken and Preacher he succeeds in recovering the gold after a series of fun episodes by being smuggled into a group of "Trojan whores" and then demonstrating the superiority of their tricks.

criticism

“Skilled in all situations, the man does justice to all saddles; ... there is also a concise whistle theme, and what more do people need? "

- Christian Keßler : Welcome to hell.

"Naive series western who tries to defuse his brutality by exaggerating, but only achieves a brutal comic that is no less questionable."

- Lexicon of international film .

Others

• The movie song Libertad is sung by Giulia De Mutis .
• The soundtrack was released on CD (Saimel 3995210)
• The title character then appeared in three films by Roberto Mauri , each portrayed by Vassili Karis . None of these films received a German-language evaluation.

Web links

• Hallelujah for Spirito Santo in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Keßler, 2002
2. ↑ A hallelujah to Spirito Santo. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .