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Django and Sartana Are Coming... It's the End (Arrivano Django e Sartana... è la fine)

Django and Sartana Are Coming... It's the End (Arrivano Django e Sartana... è la fine)

Movie · 1970 · 8 people

Demofilo Fidani made this Italian-language Spaghetti Western in 1970, and it runs 89 minutes. Its title, Arrivano Django e Sartana... è la fine, means "Django and Sartana Are Coming... It's the End". Fidani worked here under the pseudonym Spitfire, written Jack or Dick depending on the source, and the name of Diego Spataro is also mentioned in connection with the direction.

The film is a product of the era's cheap genre-film production line. As was common in those years, the names of Django and Sartana were written into the script even though the picture does not belong to the "canonical" series of adventures of either character. Fidani made four such "apocryphal" Sartana films and two Django ones. In France it carries the title Sartana, si ton bras gauche te gêne, coupe-le.

Krista Nell and Gordon Mitchell head the cast, which also lists Attilio Dottesio, Ettore Manni, Roberto Chiappa, Jack Betts, Benito Pacifico and Simonetta Vitelli. Fidani wrote the screenplay. The film reached Germany only on 26 September 1997, when a private broadcaster showed it in a dubbed version.

DirectorDemofilo Fidani

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Krista Nell Krista Nell Actor · died at 29 Cleo Gordon Mitchell Gordon Mitchell Actor · died at 80 Black Burt Keller / Burt Kelly Attilio Dottesio Ettore Manni Roberto Chiappa Jack Betts Benito Pacifico Simonetta Vitelli

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Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

This film is best read as a portrait of a production system rather than of a director. Demofilo Fidani working under a pseudonym, even the directing credit staying murky, and famous character names placed in the title with no official link all show plainly how the cheap genre line of the spaghetti western worked. The four Sartana and two Django films Fidani made on the same logic make clear this was a formula, not an exception. It would be unfair to look here for the formal daring of the genre's masters. For a cinephile curious about western history it has documentary value, but anyone wanting to see the genre at its peak should not start here.

Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

With Django and Sartana in the title you expect a big showdown. But watch out: the film is not part of either character's real series, and the names seem to be there mostly to sell the poster. If you like western duels it is watchable as a low-budget curiosity; if you want solid tension or standout set pieces, lower your expectations from the start.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

The film's journey says as much about its time as the film itself. Attaching popular character names to new productions with no tie to the original series shows that Italian genre cinema around 1970 ran on the logic of squeezing as many products as possible out of a brand. The director's pseudonym, and the fact that the film reached Germany only in 1997, dubbed, on a private TV channel, suggest these were export-minded genre goods that lived in secondary markets rather than on cinema prestige. In that sense it is a small but instructive example of how popular culture was mass-produced.

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