Django /

Django is a 1966 Italian spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Franco Nero in the title role. Nero went on to play a similar antihero in many subsequent Westerns with a return to the Django role in Django 2 - Il grande ritorno (1987). The film earned a reputation of being one of the most violent films ever made up to that point. The film's look and setting in a murky, muddy, isolated western town was the work of production designer Carlo Simi, who had created costumes and sets for Corbucci's earlier film Minnesota Clay, and who worked frequently with the signature spaghetti-Western director, Sergio Leone. Django (Franco Nero) is a drifter who drags around a coffin that conceals a machine gun. He rescues a young woman, María (Loredana Nusciak), from being murdered by bandits led by Major Jackson (Eduardo Fajardo), a man whom Django is seeking revenge on for the murder of his wife. After killing most of Jackson's men, Django makes a deal with a Mexican bandit general, Hugo Rodriguez (José Bódalo), who is in conflict with Jackson, and the two steal a large quantity of gold from a Mexican Army fort (where Jackson is doing business with a government general).