Django (1966)
Django is a 1966 Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci, starring Franco Nero am with Loredana Nusciak, José Bódalo, Ángel Álvarez and Eduardo Fajardo. Intended to capitalize on and rival the success of Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars, The film is based on Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo.
Plot Django
the story follows a stranger who drags a cofin with unknown contents behind him.
He is Django, an Union soldier-turned-drifter. He meets his companion, a prostitute, and becomes embroiled in a bitter, destructive feud between a gang of Confederate Red Shirts and a band of Mexican revolutionaries.
Notable scenes
Franco Nero revealing the contents of his coffin case.
The final standoff scene.
Making of Django
The film spawned hundreds of unofficial sequels. Some had incorrectly, and unauthorizedly, put the name in the translation title and other characters renamed it in order to cash in on the original. In Germany, the film was so popular that almost every Franco Nero western, and even random spaghetti westerns, bore the name “Django” in the title.
This movie was inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s film Django Unchained (2012), abut it’s not a remake. Franco Nero makes a cameo appearance next to Jamie Foxx.
The scenes in the deserted western town were filmed in the Elios-Studios in Rome. Most of the sets were so old that they actually required an expensive renovation. To save costs, a smoke machine was used to hide the age of the sets.
Franco Nero was just 25 years old when he appeared in this film. Make-up was used to make him appear older.
Our view on Django
Django is a great Spaghetti Western. The original film that launched over 70 imitation flix and sequels. It was the inspiration for Robert Rodriguez’s El Mariachi and Desperado. The end shootout in the graveyard is the best. Recomended by The dploitflix!
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Details
Genre: spaghetti western
Released in: 1966
Era: sixties
Actors: Franco Nero
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Poster artist: Rodolfo Gasparri
Country: Italy
