REQUIESCANT

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• Release Year: 1967
• Genre: Western
• Plot: Directed by Carlo Lizzani (Wake Up and Kill, The Hills Run Red) and with a superb soundtrack by Riz Ortolani (Day of Anger, Cannibal Holocaust), Requiescant – Latin for ‘Rest in Peace’ – ranks among the finest Spaghetti Westerns. Alex Cox named it the “one film to prove that the Italian Western was not solely Sergio Leone’s”.; ; Lou Castel (Fists in the Pocket, A Bullet for General) plays a young man who was raised to be a pacifist by a travelling preacher after Confederates massacred his family. But when his step-sister runs away, the pursuit reveals a natural talent as a sharp-shooter as well as a bloody and unexpected confrontation with his past.; ; Joining Castel are an impressive array of performers, including Mark Damon (Black Sabbath, The Fall of the House of Usher) as the sadistic aristocratic villain, Franco Citti (Accattone, The Godfather) as his henchman, and the great Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (Salò) in a rare acting role as a revolutionary priest.
• Cast: Lou Castel, Mark Damon, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Barbara Frey, Rossana Martini, Mirella Maravidi, Franco Citti, Luisa Baratto, Ninetto Davoli, Carlo Palmucci, Nino Musco, Anne Carrer, Lorenza Guerrieri, Vittorio Duse, Ferruccio Viotti, Massimo Sarchielli, Pier Annibale Danovi, Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia, Renato Terra, Aldo Marianecci, Pietro Ceccarelli, Hermann Nehlsen, Ennio Antonelli, Calogero Azzaretto, Luciano Bonanni, Amerigo Castrighella, Luigi Ciavarro, Massimo Ciprari, Spartaco Conversi, Gianni Di Segni, Alberigo Donadeo, Corinne Fontaine, Lina Franchi, Rocco Lerro, Giulio Maculani, Mauro Mannatrizio, Goffredo Matassi, Marcello Meconizzi, Fulvio Mingozzi, Renato Nicolai, Franco Pasquetto, Attilio Pelegatti, Fulvio Pellegrino, Barbara Pilavin, Attilio Severini, Jacques Stany, Marcella Theodoli, Clemente Ukmar, Franco Ukmar, Carlo Lizzani, Renato Izzo, Franco Bucceri, Adriano Bolzoni, Armando Crispino, Lucio Battistrada
• Director: Carlo Lizzani
• Runtime: 1:47
• Company: Castoro, Istituto Luce, Tefi Film, Arrow Video
• Media Format: Movie