Kill Django

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Movie
German title Kill Django
Original title Se be vivo spara
Country of production Italy , Spain
original language Italian
Publishing year 1967
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Giulio Questi
script María del Carmen Martínez Román
Franco Arcalli
Giulio Questi
production Alessandro Jacovini
music Iván Vándor
camera Franco Delli Colli
cut Franco Arcalli
occupation

Kill Django (original title: Se had vivo spara ) is a controversial with critics spaghetti westerns , the Giulio Questi 1966 staged. The film, which was premiered in Germany on May 3, 1967, was given the title Django - Leak Dust from My Colt on DVD .

action

After a group of Mexicans and Yankees killed all the guards while attacking a gold transport, the Yankee Oaks and his people cheat the Mexicans and their leader Django. They have to dig their own graves and then get shot. Two natives come to this place during the night and notice that Django is badly injured but is still alive. They pick it up and melt the gold into balls.

The Yankees have meanwhile arrived in a village. The landlord Templer and the merchant Hagerman alert the residents when they spot Oaks, whereupon the bandits are wiped out in an exchange of fire. When Django and the Indians arrive, only Oaks is still alive, albeit badly wounded.

The large landowner Zorro, who lives nearby, is after the gold loot and tries to get the dying Oaks to hide; but this is no longer available. Templer and Hagerman, who have hidden it, are fighting over the distribution. Zorro then kidnaps Templar's son Evan in order to blackmail him into surrendering the gold. When Templar refuses, Django buys him free; However, Evan then commits suicide . Zorro's gang raids Templer's house; however, the gold is now in Evans' coffin and is not found.

Hagerman now asks Django for help in order to be able to withstand the increasingly violent attacks of Templar. In his house Django discovers Elizabeth Hagerman, who is thought to be insane but healthy. The merchant holds her prisoner to make her compliant. While Django and Elizabeth spend the night together, Hagerman shoots Templers with Django's pistol. The villagers are now looking for Django, who is believed to be the murderer, only find one of the Indians and scalp him.

Meanwhile, Zorro's people capture Django and torture him until he reveals the hiding place of the gold that Templar's friend Flory had previously revealed to him. But the coffin is now empty again because Hagerman is now hiding the gold in his house. The surviving Indian frees Django from his captivity, whereupon both of Zorro's property blow up and, as it were, kill Zorro's gang assembled there; then Django shoots Zorro. When they get to Hagerman's house, they find it set on fire by Elizabeth, in which Hagerman and the gold remain. Django leaves the place and rides away.

criticism

  • The critics all deal with the excessive portrayal of violence, but also state that it is used in the service of a message. Ulrich P. Bruckner sums it up:

“ This film is undoubtedly the most perverted, sadistic and insane Italian western that has ever been made and it certainly does not suit everyone's taste.” He explains : “Giulio Questi consciously tried to break a whole series of taboos. The camera does not spare the viewer from cruel details " , but notes: " All these atrocities were not staged by Questi as an end in themselves, but as criticism of the exploitative, racist social class and the bigoted citizens. The village of the 'madmen' is actually a symbolic microcosm that reflects our capitalist society. "

“ Director Questi tries to give his melancholy fanatic of justice a little mystical shine through mental depth and dream fade-ins. Indian and early Christian customs also aim in this direction. "

  • Eckhart Schmidt remarks in "Film":

“ (…) Kill, Django seems to me to be the proof that directors can also be at work in Italian westerns who understand how to use the possibilities of the genre without wanting to turn it off its hinges. In any case, Questi has succeeded in translating so much personal information into convincing images and shapes that one should remember one's name. "

  • In his review in the weekly newspaper “ Der Freitag ” on the occasion of the film's Blu-Ray release, Thomas Groh writes:

“ Questi in Kill, Django potentiates the cynical-brutal aesthetics of the Spaghetti Western and its latent social criticism into an angry, formally beautifully derailed manifesto that has nothing to do with the operatic revelations of Sergio Leone. "

  • The Italian critics disagreed and considered the film " through the sea of ​​cruelty, in which all symbolic scenes, psychological approaches and artistic endeavors drown as the line to sadism was crossed" , for "unbearable".

Remarks

The location was among others Hoyo de Manzanares . Ann Collin interprets the film song My town . The Spanish title is Oro maldito .

There are two dubbed versions in the German-speaking area.

From 1982 to 2007 the film was on the index in Germany. The film could only be shortened on video.

synchronization

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bruckner: For a few more corpses. Munich 2006, p. 101
  2. ↑ Issue 47-48, 1967
  3. ↑ 06/1967: Inquisition through the camera
  4. ↑ Groh, Thomas: Mit dem Holzhammer , in: Der Freitag , Edition 42/2014
  5. ↑ ('Segnalazioni cinematografiche', vol. 61, 1967)
  6. ↑ schnittberichte.com, accessed on July 14, 2017