Sabata (film)
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| German title | Sabata |
| Original title | Ehi amico… c'è Sabata, hai chiuso! |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Gianfranco Parolini |
| script |
Renato Izzo Gianfranco Parolini |
| production | Alberto Grimaldi |
| music | Marcello Giombini |
| camera | Sandro Mancori |
| cut | Edmond Lozzi |
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Sabata (original title: Ehi amico… c'è Sabata, hai chiuso! ) Is an Italo-Western from 1969. It was directed by Gianfranco Parolini and Alberto Grimaldi was the executive producer . The German premiere was on May 2, 1970.
action
Former officer Sabata comes to Dougherty town. While he's having a drink in the bar, the local bank is being robbed by thieves who take away a sturdy metal safe with $ 100,000 in army money. Sabata chases after the thieves and brings the money back along with a cart full of corpses. Then he meets an old friend, Banjo, who is also in town. He also befriends the two odd characters Carrincha, a comical fat man, and Indio, a silent acrobat and witness to the robbery.
As a reward for clearing up the attack, Sabata demands $ 5,000. He finds out that the two respected citizens Stengel and Richter O'Hara as well as the saloon owner Ferguson were behind the robbery, because they planned with the insurance sums to buy land that they wanted to sell at a high price for the planned railway line. With Carrincha and Indio, he tries to use this knowledge against Stengel and his army, while Banjo is also interested in the money and tries to take it from Sabata. Sabata avoids assassination attempts and uses his superior skills to his advantage. In a showdown, all cheaters get the wages they deserve; Those behind them die, Banjo is given life by Sabata.
Reviews
The Italian critics particularly praised the portrayal of van Cleef and Berger and called the director's film, which was made in a playful rather than serious tone, "well rhythmic".
“The makers of this film enjoy their own cunning, a pleasure that they transfer to their title hero and thus ultimately to the audience. The recipe of adding a touch of unreality to the film by taking everything to the extreme is used here with good success. "
Genre connoisseur Christian Keßler sums it up: “An extremely good-looking film. Technically really hard to beat. "The lexicon of the international film was of a completely different and negative opinion :" Weird spaghetti westerns, bumblingly staged and played woodenly. "
Remarks
Most of the film was made in Italy, with some shooting outside in Tabernas .
synchronization
Under the direction of Michael Günther, Ultra Film Synchron, Berlin , used the following speakers for the dialogue book he wrote:
- Lee van Cleef: Heinz Petruo
- William Berger: Rolf Schult
- Ignazio Spalla: Alexander Welbat
- Franco Ressel: Harry Wüstenhagen
- Antonio Gradoli: Heinz Giese
- Claudio Undari: Jürgen Thormann
- Gianni Rizzo: Hans-Dieter Zeidler
Web links
- Sabata in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The film at comingsoon.it
Individual evidence
- ↑ Segnalazioni Cinematografiche, Vol. 67. 1969
- ↑ Christian Keßler: Welcome to Hell. 2002, pp. 89/90
- ^ Sabata. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Ulrich P. Brúckner: For a few more corpses. Munich 2006, p. 305