May they rest in peace
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | May they rest in peace |
| Original title | Requiescant |
| Country of production | Italy , Germany |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 110 (German v. 92) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Carlo Lizzani |
| script |
Adriano Bolzoni Lucio Battistrada Armando Crispino Karl Heinz Vogelmann |
| production | Carlo Lizzani Ernst Ritter von Theumer |
| music | Riz Ortolani |
| camera | Alessandro Mancori |
| cut | Franco Fraticelli |
| occupation | |
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May they find rest in peace (original title: Requiescant ) is a spaghetti western from 1966, which was shown in the German language only in a mutilated form. The film, co-produced by Ernst Ritter von Theumer , was shown in local cinemas on July 28, 1967. The director Carlo Lizzani , who is close to neorealism , cast a . a. Pier Paolo Pasolini as a priest.
action
At Fort Hernandez near San Antonio, a group of Mexican villagers are betrayed and murdered by Confederate soldiers under the command of aristocrat Ferguson. A young boy, Requiescant, survives and runs into the desert, where he is rescued by Jeremy, who is traveling there with his small family. He raises Requiescant like his own son; he gets along particularly well with his stepsister Princy, who one day rebels against her family and joins a traveling group.
Requiescant goes looking for the girl for his surrogate family; on the way he can prove several times how quickly he knows how to use the revolver. When he gets to San Antonio, he discovers that the town belongs to the former officer Ferguson. In the saloon he finds Princy as a prostitute and the Ferguson subordinate Dean Light as her pimp. Ferguson refuses to let Princy go away with Requiescant. When Requiescant learns of his true identity, he supports the priest don Juan in his revolt against Ferguson.
reception
“Realistically held Western (with Pasolini in the role of a priest) about pre-revolutionary Mexico, without sufficient psychological foundation and with some brutalities; in the German distribution version drastically and not very carefully shortened. "
Ermanno Comuzio praised: “The film is halfway between the conventional western style and the new cinema - the usual motifs are mixed with topics of the democracy movement. These two dimensions are optimally coordinated here. "
Ulrich P. Bruckner emphasizes the political dimension: “Mark Damon, normally the hero on duty, plays against his image with the vampire-like, pale make-up and all in black villain Ferguson, who is a perfect contrast to Pasolini's Don Juan gives. Both only believe in their own truth, the revolutionary and underdog Don Juan, who was forced to join the revolution and fight against oppression of the ruling class, and on the other hand, the aristocrat Ferguson, who cannot get used to the fact that it is can give equality between the ruling class and the ruled class. "
The evangelical film observer came to a lower assessment : “Social disagreements form the background of a battle between pseudo-human monsters, whose religiosity or devilry are quoted as a pleasant pleasure. Entertaining only for an uncritical audience aged 18 and over. "
Remarks
The German alternative title is the unimaginative Galgen Kid .
In Italy the film grossed almost half a billion lire .
Web links
- May they find rest in peace in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ May they rest in peace. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Comuzio in “Cineforum 68”, October 1967
- ^ Bruckner in: For a few more corpses. Munich 2006, p. 127
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 442/1967
- ^ R. Poppi, M. Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film Vol. 3. Gremese, 1992, p. 445