Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained

Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained is a 2021 Documentary film, directed by Luca Rea, with Quentin Tarantino, Franco Nero, Ruggero Deodato, Sergio Corbucci. English subtitles.

Quentin Tarantino, exceptional narrator, tells why Sergio Corbucci is "the second best director of Italian westerns", as stated by a character in his film "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" and as confirmed by his choice to make Django Unchained inspired by a Corbucci film from the 1960s. Unpublished period materials, testimonies, reconstructions to tell a cinema and an unrepeatable era.

Django, Il Grande Silenzio, Gli specialisti, Il Mercenario, Vamos a matar compañeros, Che c’entriamo noi con la rivoluzione?: Corbucci's westerns as cinema of cruelty, but also as a great invention and as a metaphor for all the ideas that circulated in Italy in the 1960s. A documentary that tells the story of Sergio Corbucci, one of the masters of Italian cinema of the 1960s, 70s and 80s and author of extraordinary western films, created following the success of Sergio Leone's Dollar Trilogy.

Quentin Tarantino drew inspiration from two works by Corbucci: Django (1966) and The Great Silence (1968) were extensively referenced in Django Unchained (2012) and The Hateful Eight (2015), but also Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ( 2019) included a tribute to the Italian director.

Thanks to archive materials and the testimonies of those who knew him, this documentary outlines a portrait of Corbucci, who managed to establish himself both on the Italian and international scene, always following his own style, still now explored and debated within of contemporary criticism.