Compañeros
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| Directed by | Sergio Corbucci |
| Produced by | Antonio Morelli |
| Screenplay by |
Dino Maiuri Massimo De Rita Fritz Ebert Sergio Corbucci |
| Story by | Sergio Corbucci |
| Starring |
Franco Nero Tomas Milian Jack Palance Fernando Rey Iris Berben Francisco Bodalo Edoardo Fajardo |
| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
| Cinematography | Alejandro Ulloa |
| Edited by | Eugenio Alabiso |
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Production
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| Distributed by |
Titanus Distribuzione (Italy) GSF Productions (US) |
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Release date
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18 December 1970 |
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Running time
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119 minutes (Italy) 115 minutes (US) |
| Country |
Italy Spain West Germany |
| Language |
Italian English Spanish |
| Box office | 1,451,782,000 ITL (Italy) |
Compañeros (Spanish: Vamos a matar, compañeros, lit. "Let's Go and Kill, Companions") is a 1970 Zapata Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci. The film stars Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Jack Palance and Fernando Rey. The soundtrack for the film was written by Ennio Morricone, and the orchestra was conducted by Bruno Nicolai.
Compañeros is one of Corbucci's best-known westerns, as well as one of the best-known spaghetti westerns altogether. The film has been compared to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, as it intertwines the paths of several characters in the middle of a conflict, but takes place during the Mexican Revolution instead of the American Civil War. Due to the setting and Nero's and Milián's characters, it is similar also to Corbucci's earlier Zapata Western, The Mercenary, which was released two years earlier. Alejandro Ulloa was the cinematographer for both films.
Compañeros is the only film in which the two stars of Italian genre films, Franco Nero and Tomás Milián, acted together. Nero later complained that Corbucci concentrated too much on Milian, and refused to act in Long Live Your Death if Corbucci was to direct it.
During the Mexican Revolution, a peasant named El Vasco (Milian) starts a revolt in his town by killing the army colonel in charge. Rebel leader and self-appointed General Mongo (Bódalo) soon arrives on the scene and hires El Vasco to his revolutionary gang. However, Mongo is more interested in gaining fortune for himself than for his country. Yodlaf Peterson (Nero), a Swedish mercenary arrives in Mexico to sell guns to General Mongo. The safe containing the money is locked and only Professor Xantos (Rey) knows the combination. Xantos is the leader of a student counter-revolution that opposes violence, and is held in a prison by the United States army, after he tried to find funding from the US and did not agree to give the monopoly of his country's entire oil wealth in return.
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