Django (Sergio Corbucci, 1966)

Django (Franco Nero) is, as any other loner, recently discharged from the Yankee army and travelling south to the Mexico border. Dragging a coffin along with him, he arrives at a bordertown and is put in the middle of a conflict between Major Jackson and General Rodríguez and his bandits. Django has also his own personal vendetta to settle with Jackson and his men for they were responseble for his wifes death. He takes it into his own hands to streighten out this feud in the way only lone gunmen in spaghetti-western can and that?s by killing everybody that is a hostility.

Just as many other spagheti-westerns that came after A fistful of dollars, Django, became a box-office hit in Europe. On the other hand it was banned in Britain, an several other countries, because of its raw and graphic violence. Despite the harsh nature of it all is the violence in a cartoony style and is rather packed with humour, such as extreme characterzation. Corbucci also says that there can be found numerous political topics, the one most obvious is that Django does NOT like rasists.

Django is a ?revolutionary western? and as a such it takes on several political matters and uses the revolution in mexico 1913 as a medium. Corbucci like Leone made many more ?revolutionary westerns? such as Il grande silenzio (1968), Il mercernario (1968) and vamos a matar, compañeros (1970).