Requiescant | Spaghetti Western | Mark Damon

Requiescant - The adopted son of a preacher comes upon a village that is under the thumb of a deranged ex-Confederate officer, who is - among other things - stealing land from the locals with phony land grants.

Requiescant (1967)
Director: Carlo Lizzani
Writers: Renato Izzo (story), Franco Bucceri (story)
Stars: Lou Castel, Mark Damon, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Country: Italy, Monaco, West Germany
Language: English
Release Date: 10 March 1967 (Italy)
Also Known As: Let Them Rest
Filming Locations: Italy

Storyline:
The adopted son of a preacher comes upon a village that is under the thumb of a deranged ex-Confederate officer, who is - among other things - stealing land from the locals with phony land grants.

Reviews:
"But Spaghetti Westerns were made by left wing radicals, this one actually has one of the leading lights of the PCI (Italian Communist Party) in it, and that is very much the focus for director Carlo Lizzani. Whereas most all of the sub-genre were Westerns with an Italian artistic slant and some radical sub-text, this one is a straight-ahead, let's give the young communistas some proper learning, Western movie style. The story is thin because it's totally unimportant. There aren't plot holes; there's a bit of hand waving to acknowledge it, much like you might add a box to a flow diagram to represent an input you're not fully diagramming. Those bits are deemed unimportant. "How does he learn to shoot?" It's not important. It's not telling a story, it's acting out critical moments in life to provoke thoughts about class struggle.

I couldn't believe how dense the political/social message was. EVERY little scene, EVERYTHING is there for symbolic value. And the story isn't that bad as I never felt it dragging. So preachy, such a thin story, it should have become tedious. It never did. I usually watch the classics in installments to get every detail, but I watched this one start to end because I couldn't stop watching it. I couldn't believe he had made such a pure vehicle for talking about class struggle, the role of violence, when should violence be used, how does doing so change the person, etc., etc., etc.

You can certainly argue that that's not a valid way to make any kind of Western. But if you like Spaghetti Westerns for that reason, this is not to be missed because you will never find another that is so straight-ahead about what it's doing. Lizzani basically said, "Damn it, I'm tired of p*ssy footing around with a few abstract comparisons. Let's lay it all right out there". Most the other reviews on this are like reading Alice in Wonderland and saying, "That doesn't seem very realistic. How can that be about logic?" But I'm not complaining. It was very nice to be so pleasantly surprised after having very low expectations." Written by adrianswingler on IMDb.com

Also Known As (AKA):
(original title): Requiescant
Austria: Mögen sie in Frieden ruhen
Brazil: Réquiem Para Matar
Colombia: Que en paz descansen
Denmark: En hævner renser ud
France: Tue et fais ta prière
Greece (transliterated title): To telos ton paranomon
Hungary: Nyugodjanak békében
Italy (reissue title): Dio crea gli uomini, Requiescant li uccide
Japan: Koroshite Inore
Japan (Japanese title): 殺して祈れ
Portugal: Os Assassinos também choram
Soviet Union (Russian title): Покойся с миром
Turkey (Turkish title): Sev ve öldür
UK: Requiescant
USA (DVD title): Kill and Pray
USA: Let Them Rest
USA: Requiescant
West Germany: Mögen sie in Frieden ruh'n
Yugoslavia (Macedonian title): Pocivaj vo

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