Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino / US, 2012 / 165 min.
To highlight the premiere of The Hateful Eight, EYE presents a few unadulterated Tarantino classics on the big screen, light years removed from the teeny, stunted and far too cramped screens of the average mobile, tablet or laptop. For all Tarantino fans we once more offer, in a cinema format worthy of the film, Tarantino’s homage to the mythical spaghetti western character Django.
The tormented antihero Django was a great hit in the cinemas in the sixties and seventies. Sergio Corbucci”s western classic Django (1966) set the tone with its very explicit scenes of violence, after which filmmakers such as Baldi, Garrone, De Martino and Fidani followed suit with magnificent titles like Viva Django!, Django il bastardo, Django spara per primo and Quel maledetto giorno d”inverno… Django e Santana all ultimo sangue.
Django Unchained was Tarantino”s own contribution to the Django myth. This time Django (Jamie Foxx) is a slave on a plantation in the southern state of Mississippi. Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), a bounty hunter with a rather shady past as a German dentist, buys him his liberty just before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
It”s now Django”s task to put Schultz on the scent of the Brittle Brothers, but the liberated slave has only one thing on his mind, to find his wife Broomhilda, who has fallen into the hands of the merciless plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo Di Caprio).
Details
Director
Quentin Tarantino
Production year
2012
Country
US
Original title
Django Unchained
Length
165 min.
Subtitles
NLD
Format
DCP - encrypted
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