Yankee (film)

Movie
German title	Yankee
Original title	Yankee
Country of production	Italy , Spain
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1966
length	96 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Tinto Brass
script	Alberto Silvestri Tinto Brass Alfonso Balcázar
production	Antonio Lucatelli Francesco Giorgi Alfonso Balcázar
music	Nini Rosso
camera	Alfio Contini
cut	Juan Oliver Tinto Brass
occupation
Philippe Leroy : Yankee Adolfo Celi : Grand Concho Jacques Herlin : The Philosopher Tomás Torres : Luis Francisco Sanz : Consalvo (as Paco Sanz ) Franco de Rosa : angel face Pasquale Basile : gold tooth Giorgio Bret Schneider : Painter Renzo Pevarello : Portuguese Antonio Basile : Tattooed Tomas Milton : Tom César Ojinaga : Deputy Sheriff Valentino Macchi : Garcia Henriquetta Senalada Osiride Pevarello José Halufi : Dog Mirella Martin : Rosita

Yankee is a spaghetti western , which in 1966 by Tinto Brass was staged. The German-language premiere took place on October 12, 1967.

action

A stranger everyone calls "Yankee" comes to a city in New Mexico that doesn't care much about the law. The residents tremble before the inviolable bandit Grand Concho, who with the help of his gang drains them financially and psychologically. When Yankee is advised to leave town, he sees a good deal. He becomes the bandit’s business partner. Slowly but steadily, he plays the people from Grand Concho's gang against each other and can collect their head bonus. Even when his activities are discovered and he survives the torture with great difficulty, he continues to pursue his goals. In the end he can defeat the boss himself and move on with rich booty.

criticism

The lexicon of international film found the film “brutal”, but praised the “imaginative camera work”. Christian Keßler notices the tradition of the absurd theater in this film, which clearly represents capitalism (Yankee) and fascism (Concho). The secondary characters also contribute to this not only through the naming, but also through sometimes grotesque processes. The AGCM Cinematografiche however, saw a "concept of bad taste. Nervous section, linguistic Ansonderlichkeiten, paradoxical characterizations" Even the Protestant movie watchers does not think much of the strip: "Another one of those nasty Italo-Spanish Western who do not themselves enough can in their depiction of sadisms and brutalities. The moral standard of the hunter and the hunted is equally low. Without any recommendation. "

Remarks

The film grossed 445 million lire in Italy .

Web links

• Yankee in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The film at comingsoon.it

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yankee. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
2. ↑ Christian Keßler: Welcome to Hell. 2006, p. 282
3. ↑ Segnalazioni Cinematografiche, Vol. 62, 1967
4. ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 459/1967
5. ^ Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film Vol. 3. Rome, Gremese, 1992, p. 612