The legends of the spaghetti western genre told their stories in the meeting moderated by Steve Della Casa and Marco Giusti
Cinecitta News
By Caterina Cesari
April 3, 2025
The Custodians of Dreams Festival, underway at the Centro Sperimentale, hosted the meeting "Cavalcano ancora", moderated by Steve Della Casa and Marco Giusti, which brought together some of the most significant voices of the Italian western. The panel, full of testimonies and anecdotes, saw the participation of directors, actors and producers who have contributed to the birth and success of the genre in Italy.
Among the participants, the names of Eugenio Alabiso, Maurizio Amati, Marco Tullio Barboni, Enzo G. Castellari and Roberto Di Girolamo stand out, together with legends such as Ida Galli (Evelyn Stewart), Gianni Garko, Romolo Guerrieri, Malisa Longo, Sergio Martino, Luc Merenda, Giuseppe Pedersoli and Renato Rossini. All called to retrace the golden age of spaghetti westerns, a genre that revolutionized Italian cinema and which, between dusty sets and epic atmospheres, was able to tell the frontier in a unique and irreverent way.
A vivid memory of an Italy that, in the 60s and 70s, was a laboratory of cinematographic experimentation, where the western became one of the main attractions for European audiences. The Spanish sets, the preferred backdrop for outdoor shooting, were often numerous and active at the same time: real protagonists alongside the stars. An era that still leaves an indelible imprint on the collective cinematographic memory
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