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Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero, known professionally as Franco Nero, is an Italian actor, producer, and director. His breakthrough role was as the title character in the Spaghetti Western film Django (1966), which made him a pop culture icon and launched an international career that includes over 200 leading and supporting roles in a wide variety of films and television programmes.
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Django may refer to:
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Django is a 1966 Spaghetti Western film directed and co-written by Sergio Corbucci, starring Franco Nero as the title character alongside Loredana Nusciak, José Bódalo, Ángel Álvarez and Eduardo Fajardo. The film follows a Union soldier-turned-drifter and his companion, a mixed-race prostitute, who become embroiled in a bitter, destructive feud between a gang of Confederate Red Shirts and a band of Mexican revolutionaries. Intended to capitalize on and rival the success of Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars, Corbucci's film is, like Leone's, considered to be a loose, unofficial adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo.
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References
- ↑ Van Syckle, Katie. "Jamie Foxx Gives Us the Backstory on Django's '100 Black Coffins'" . Retrieved 2 March 2013.
- ↑ "Rick Ross – 100 Black Coffins" (in French). Les classement single.
- ↑ "Rick Ross – 100 Black Coffins" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved October 31, 2018.