Fans of the late Spaghetti western actor Bud Spencer
unveiled this past Saturday a statue in his honor, but not in his native Italy,
or in Almeria, where some of his films were shot, but in Hungary, where he is
the object of a true cult following.
The Bronze Statue, more than two meters tall and
representing the Italian Cowboy Actor, carrying a saddle on his back, was
unveiled in a pedestrian street in Budapest in the presence of his two
daughters.
Following the death of bud Spencer, in June 2016, at the
age of 86, the tribute was proposed in the Budapest City Hall by the
Sculpture’s artist and received enthusiastic approval from the authorities.
Budapest already has a park named after the actor.
The Spaghetti Western made this actor a star along with
his inseparable companion Terence Hill between the late 1960 s and early 1970
s, some of them in the desert of Almería, Southern Spain, were curiously
popular in Communist Hungary during those years and whose regime considered
them harmless.
"it was a bit of the West, of the freedom, to which
we could have some access" explained to the press, by a 43-Year-old grocer
who came to the opening.
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