Sartana - Pray for your death

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Movie
German title Sartana - Pray for your death
Original title … Se incontri Sartana prega per la tua morte
Country of production Italy , Germany
original language Italian
Publishing year 1968
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Gianfranco Parolini
script Adolfo Cagnacci
Luigi De Santis
Werner Hauff
Renato Izzo
production Aldo Addobbati
music Piero Piccioni
camera Sandro Mancori
cut Edmond Lozzi
occupation

Sartana - Pray for your death (original title: … Se incontri Sartana prega per la tua morte ) from 1968 is an Italo-Western by the Italian director Gianfranco Parolini under his pseudonym Frank Kramer . The German-language premiere took place on August 22, 1969.

action

A gang of Mexicans under El Moreno raid a gold-laden stagecoach on behalf of Tampico, but are murdered by the people around the clever Lasky. While they strive to distribute the booty, a machine gun puts an end to their lives - Lasky himself wielded it; however, the chest he opens contains only stones. The whole thing is observed by Sartana, a man dressed in black with a watch and jukebox who uses hiding places and cover unseen. Lasky flees from the scene and informs the bankers Hallman and Stewall, the masterminds of the robbery. In the period that followed, Sartana was able to escape all attacks that were carried out from different sides; his music box often spreads fear and amazement.

After Stewall was murdered, Hallman entrusts his wife Evelyn with the hiding place for the gold: the coffin of the recently deceased mayor no longer contains the $ 100,000, as Lasky and Sartana, who killed the Mexicans, have to discover. They have negotiated a collaboration, as each of the two thinks of the other that he knows more than he does. The collaboration is soon ended by what Sartana sees as a fatal argument. Lasky learns about the hiding place of the gold from Evelyn, who shot her naive husband, and takes her to the coffin store, where he shoots her and then meets Sartana, who survived thanks to a brass medal. Sartana doesn't give them a chance. He rides away with the gold.

criticism

The lexicon of international films judged the film to be a “ usual spaghetti western with accumulated cruelty. ” Ulrich P. Bruckner notes that the time of avenging heroes is over with this film, which focuses on a new cynical, amoral character . He praises the cast and emphasizes the role of musical accompaniment. "Fast-paced and entertaining using a lot of cruel scenes," he sums up his judgment. The latter was too much for Ernst Bohlius, who also criticized the film's sadism and an unsatisfactory ending, but at the same time attested a lot of tension and cruel gags. The Italian film Mese attested the film a little more virulence than usual in Italian westerns and praised Garko, Chaplin and the "always reliable" Sancho and Kinski.

Remarks

Before he made this film, Gianfranco Parolini was already the director of several spaghetti westerns and later also made the Sabata films. The later Sartana films, on the other hand, were directed by Giuliano Carnimeo, aka Anthony Ascott.

The gross profit in Italy was 443 million lire ; the soundtrack was released on LP (Intermezzo / General Music IMGM 003).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Sartana - Pray for your death. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. Ulrich P. Bruckner: Welcome to Hell. Munich 2006, p. 276ff.
  3. Bohlius, in: Filmecho / Filmwoche Heft 72. 1969
  4. ^ Film Mese , No. 21/22, November 1968
  5. ^ Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film Vol. 3 , dal 1960 al 1969. Gremese, Rome, 1992, p. 479