“Christ died between two bandits!” yells Klaus Kinski to a priest, before killing him. The landowner, about to be executed by the peons, asks: “Is it because I’m rich?”; they reply: “No, it’s because we are poor…we want the land”. And again: the character played by Gian Maria Volonté, stupefied by the luxury of a patrician home, immediately scratches his scrotum. Proletarian rage, an allegory of North American imperialism (with C.I.A. assassins), amusing braggadocio plus a robust moral message in the finale: “If your god is money, maybe you’ll save your life but not your soul”. With Damiano Damiani, the spaghetti-western becomes political, crossed by an ideology that is a hybrid between Marxism and Christianity. The stylistic elements of the genre are all respected: picturesque, ugly, dirty, bad, bold and cowardly characters; one shooting that follows another; women and wine, irony, epic and plot twists.
Niccolò Rangoni Machiavelli
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Genre: western
Cast
Gian Maria Volonté: Chuncho
Lou Castel: Bill Niño Tate
Klaus Kinski: El Santo
Martine Beswick: Adelita
Luis Bacalov soundtrack
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