Some of the most radical Italian communists also turned to terrorism to try to achieve their goals, forming The Red Brigades which conducted various acts of terror, the most well-known being the hijacking and killing of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro in 1978
Thanks, Iâll have to dig out that book again!
Nice article Scherp!
As for Sollima, there is an interesting interview with him here about his SWs, although it doesnât specifically deal with Communism: http://website.lineone.net/~braithwaitej/mainsite/overview/nighteagle/nighteagle.htm
thankâs for the Link Novecento, I was asking because I belive you are Italian, I hope I wasnât wrong 
and Sorry If was.
Great line this one
No, those sons of bitches of the War Ministry recruited me in ´41. I became a soldier and that´s why we lost the war against America!! ;D
Not the last time I checked 
The name I use here comes from the book âNovecentoâ by Alessandro Baricco which was made into one of my favorite films âLa Leggenda del pianista sullâoceanoâ (âThe Legend of 1900â) by Giuseppe Tornatore. The main character, Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Novecento, is played by Tim Roth who is depicted in my avatar.
Thank God 
I also love that film, put it in the John welles topic of the 1001 films you must see before you die just yesterday, itâs a great film Tornatore best of course followed close by Melena. Still reading the interview thankâs again Nov.
We better stop this faantastic but off topic chat before the Polizei ;D comes after us
Yup, itâs actually one of my all-time favorites. Bariccoâs original book is really good too if you can manage to find a copy.
Back on topic, this is what I found most interesting in the interview:
âI knew that Beauregard would be something completely different from Cuchillo, I took the risk. I don´t know today if I did the right thing by changing drastically the character typology. Maybe, continuing the second movie with another Cuchillo story would have been more convenient from a box office point of view. Leone did his dollar trilogy in this sense. But I have never been a successful money maker. I was too much interested in what I wanted to express at that very moment in time. Box office was another story⌠just consider that Django clearly beat Faccia⌠with respect to mere businessâ
Giving the sting to Leone. Rivalty between genius (furthermor more, Italian genius ;D ) itâs not a simple issue
By the way, the guy who conducted the interview used to post at the SLWB: Sergio Leone vs. Sergio Sollima . There are some old contact details there for him which might still be valid.
Oh come on, Sollima is far, far away from being a genius of filmmaking. He was a good director who made a couple of interesting films, but nothing really outstanding. Thatâs it.
And according to my calculations Sollimaâs SWs did very well at the Italian Box office. And FTF was only slightly beneath Django, and much more successful than most Corbucci films. and La resa dei conti beat every Corbucci.
Rank Title Spectators in mio
20 La resa dei conti 5259
34 Faccia a faccia 3812
44 Corri, uomo, corri 3278
27 Django 4087
28 Il bianco, il giallo, il nero 4081
29 Vamos a matar, companeros 4044
37 Il mercenario 3551
49 Che câ entriamo noi con la rivoluzione? 2739
Only 5 Corbuccis in the Italian list of the 50 most successful SWs
I wish Sollima had made another Cuchillo movie instead of Faccia a FacciaâŚ
;D Yah Ok leone Is super genius and GBU Once upon⌠and Giu la testa where enought for that (Iâm not even couting Once upon a time in America).
But just for doing La Resa dei Conti and Faccia a faccia a litle less heâs a agenius to me also La resa is one the best SW ever
I donât. But if he had made fourth western then another Cuchillo movie would have been more than welcome.
What is in the Top 10 ?
I find very interesting. Could someone to open a new topic. :
After so much talk I just have to saw the film, and wasnât that much impressed, donât get me wrong it a great SW with some great scenes, but lacks charisma IMO, this feeling getâs bigger by having rewatched Faccia a Faccia and Big Gundown recently.
The cinematography itâs top nocht as usual in SW even in some very weak ones, the score not the most thrilling but goes oK, the story so so, the normal stuff, I think the writers (credits given to Sollima and other guy) were already in auto mode, the director doesât make great efforts to turn the film in something special, maybe he did not tried to much, cause he already know it was an useless effort with the ingridients he got.
Some people complain Millian overacts too much, I have not see may of his no SW films, but the problema for Millian is that he did the same character too many times (even outside SW), which may give the feeling heâs overacting. Anyway the Cuchillo character becomes different from the Big Gundown to this film, in some way I think it changes so much that this Cuchilo itâs not the same one from the first film where he was more wild, a more surprinsing one, also the female characters lack some dept for the importance that have in the film, and Dolores surviving alone the trip in such a cruel of SW nor very plausible (not even raped ;D).
Well watching this one after I saw The big Gundown maybe it wasnât the best ideia, Donal OâBrien heâs no LVC (more a A Steffen), like I said a little bit above average, but just a little bit.
3 out of 5
I wish Lee Van Cleef would have been in this one⌠He was really missing 
I just re-read those sections of the book. Unfortunately there seems to be no specific reference to where or when Corbucci actually said this, but there is no reason necessarily to doubt Fraylingâs attribution.
Itâs interesting that Corbucci coined the term when people tend to assume that it was Damianiâs âÂżQuien Sabe?â that started the trend. Although Corbucci could no doubt have coined the phrase later to refer to all such revolutionary-themed Spaghettis, I tend to disagree that there was ever a clean break via âÂżQuien Sabe?â which Damiani attempts to disassociate from the SW genre in any case. Of course, characters like El Santo with his holy hand grenades cast serious doubt on Damianiâs attempt, but âÂżQuien Sabe?â certainly does not indulge in the usual excesses of the Zapata-genre. Hughes notes that some critics cited this as the filmsâ greatest weakness; it neither fell cleanly into the SW camp, nor was it serious enough to be compared favorably with things like Pontecorvoâs âQueimadaâ which Bondanella (History of Italian Cinema) correctly notes to address very similar themes to these Zapata-westerns.
Furthermore, the Mexican revolution and the intervention of the US, or more generally gringos, is evident even in the earliest SWs (e.g. the Mexican soldiers escorting the gold to the US in âFistfulâ). Perhaps also of note is that Sollimaâs âBig Gundownâ was released in the same year as âÂżQuien Sabe?â although I am not sure which went into production first
I think I have read somewhere that the new Rainbow Koch DVD contains as an Easter Egg the shorter German version. I have tried everything but canât find it on the DVD. Anyone here who knows more?
Here you can find informations: 
Ahh, Danke.
Ganz ehrlich, diese Easter Eggs, das ist absoluter Schwachsinn die so zu verstecken.
Verstehe ich auch nicht.
Das Highlight ist hier die gute Friedhof ohne Kreuze DVD. Deren Easter Eggs sind zwar nicht so schwer zu finden, aber in einer Masse vertreten, dass ich nach einer gewissen Zeit aufgegeben habe, alle zu suchen.
Wobei eine deutsche Version als Easter Egg zu verstecken, wie bei Lauf um dein Leben, ist doch wenig nachvollziehbar.
Aber manche Leute scheinen Spass daran zu haben diese zu suchen. Ich persĂśnlich und da stimme ich dir zu, finde es auch eher nervig.