Spaghetti Western, in Pietrastornina the great director Enzo G. Castellari

 Irpinia News

August 26, 2024

A face of passage between Lieutenant Aldo Raine and Sergeant Donnie Donowitz during the premiere of "Pride of the Nation" who will fall, like many other Nazi hierarchs, into the trap of Soshanna and the Bastards. Enzo G. Castellari owes Quentin Tarantino and the cameo offered to him in "Inglourious Basterds" a renewed notoriety among the younger generations. And all this thanks to his unmistakable style. Tarantino himself was in fact marked by the films of Maestro Castellari. The American was impressed by "That damned armored train" – which arrived overseas as "Inglourious Basterds" – that he wanted to make a remake of it, "Inglourious Basterds" precisely.

In reality, however, Enzo G. Castellari is much more and to fans of the Spaghetti Western genre his name can only bring to mind timeless scenes and titles. Castellari has linked his name to westerns since 1966, he is in fact co-director in the film "A Few Dollars for Django". His real debut, however, was the following year with the film "7 winchesters for a massacre" which consecrated him as one of the great directors of the Italian western epic. "I'm going... I'll kill him and I'll be back" (which has to all intents and purposes entered our daily vocabulary as a real saying), "Keoma", "Jonathan degli Orsi" are just some of his most famous masterpieces that have consecrated him in the national and world imagination as one of the greatest filmmakers of the Spaghetti Western genre.

The class of 1938 will be a guest on Sunday 8 September as part of the Film Festival of the third edition of Spaghetti Western Pietrastornina. An unmissable meeting with one of the most authoritative figures on the western film scene who will not fail to tell us secrets and anecdotes of his art and his work, from the relationship, on set and in life, with the great Franco Nero to the meeting with Tarantino, from the nuanced work with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill to the works with Vittorio Gassman, Claudia Cardinale and Virna Lisi, to name just a few, perhaps among the best known to the general public, of the actors that Maestro Castellari had the pleasure and honor of meeting and directing. Thanks to the union of intentions between the "Spaghetti Western Pietrastornina" association and the "Camposecco Far West" group, Enzo G. Castellari will bring his story and his experience to the attention of the enthusiasts who will crowd the streets of the Irpinian town (ed. Pietrastornina) for an evening and an unmissable and certainly historical story.