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Mann, a gunman, learns his father was murdered by his mother and her lover. His childhood friend informs him, while Mann's sister is controlled by their murderous mom. Mann and his friend co... Read allMann, a gunman, learns his father was murdered by his mother and her lover. His childhood friend informs him, while Mann's sister is controlled by their murderous mom. Mann and his friend confront the mother to settle the score.Mann, a gunman, learns his father was murdered by his mother and her lover. His childhood friend informs him, while Mann's sister is controlled by their murderous mom. Mann and his friend confront the mother to settle the score.
Pilar Velázquez
- Isabella Carrasco
- (as Pilar Velazquez)
José Suárez
- General Juan Carrasco
- (as José Suarez)
Barbara Nelli
- Conchita
- (as Barbara Nelly)
Mirella Pamphili
- Inez
- (as Mirella Pompili)
Franco Gulà
- Preacher
- (as Francesco Gula)
José Riesgo
- Francisco Henchman
- (as José Riesco)
Omero Capanna
- Hitman
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaBased on the ancient Greek myth of the events in the House of Atreus, as dealt with by the fourth-century BC Athenian tragedians: Aeschylus, in his trilogy, 'The Oresteia'; Sophocles, in his play, 'Electra'; and Euripdies, in his play, 'Electra'. The story, however, is much older, appearing also in Homer's 'The Odyssey', albeit in much less detail. According to the myth, Agamemnon is assassinated upon his return home from the war at Troy by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, Agamemnon's cousin. In Aeschylus, Orestes, Agamemnon's son, is sent as a boy by Clytemnestra to an old family friend and ally in Delphi, far enough from the royal palace in Mycenae/Argos to be both safe and not a threat. In Sophocles, Orestes is entrusted by his older sister, Electra, to an old slave who flees and raises Orestes in secret. Some years later, Orestes secretly returns as a young man, intent on revenge, alongside his friend Pylades. The plays vary in their respective representations, but ultimately Orestes and Electra are re-united, Orestes forms a plan to kill Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, and Electra wholeheartedly supports the plan. A false report of Orestes' death is given to Clytemnestra and Aegisthus (in Aeschylus, Orestes himself poses as the messenger; in Sophocles, it is the Old Slave, while Orestes poses as an attendant carrying the urn of his own supposed ashes). Once in the palace, Orestes, supported by Pylades, murders Clytemnestra and Aegisthus. In Sophocles, the play ends here, and the audience is left with the sense of the figurative death of both Orestes' and Electra's humanity through the destructive vendetta. In Aeschylus, Orestes is driven mad by the avenging Furies over his act of matricide, and eventually goes on trial in Athens.
- GoofsAt 2 minutes a mounted bandit, having fired at a lone rider, rides down a hill wearing a black serape over his right shoulder. At 3 minutes when he arrives at the bottom of the hill and is shot the serape is gone.
- ConnectionsReferenced in ...And Give Us Our Daily Sex (1979)
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Ferdinando Baldo needs only 85 minutes to deliver a family drama of high complexity. Rafael hates Anna Carrasco because she didn't permit him to marry her daughter. To accomplish his revenge he searches for Anna's son Sebastian who wants to avenge the murder of his father who was actually murdered by Anna. Anna back then was helped by her lover whom she replaced already by another men. I will not continue any further, I hope you've got an entry into the muddled plot. Unfortunately this isn't a Western plot which means that genre fans will be rather disappointed. Fans of serious drama will be disappointed by the high pace which never permits to get any deeper into the characters. Anna's daughter Conchita says: "I will not leave the town as long as the murderers of my father still live here". Well, I would always prefer not to live together with murderers but that quantity of logic is missing. The story as it is told often rises more questions than it answers. Acting is as good as the weak script permits, the women are really handsome. Sets and locations give the impression of being in Southern Spain and not in the American West most of the time.
The high quality German DVD is a real bargain and has an English soundtrack.
5 / 10 (**)
The high quality German DVD is a real bargain and has an English soundtrack.
5 / 10 (**)
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