An Italian western based on an actual work of classic literature, Carmen, Man, Pride and Vengeance (which was sold as Mit Django kam der Tod (Wth Django Came Death) in Germany due to Franco Nero being the star) is actually set in Europe instead of the American west.
Don José (Nero) is bewitched by Carmen (Tina Aumont, Arcana), even allowing her to escape an arrest which finds him demoted. He soon learns that she's also slept with Lt. Pepe (Franco Ressel, Blood and Black Lace) which makes him insane, so he kills the man and runs from the city. He's injured and barely makes it before being rescued by Carmen's family, which surprisingly has her husband Garcia (Klaus Kinski!) amongst them.
He wants to run to America with her. She says they need gold, gold that can only come from robbing a stagecoach with Garcia's gang. Of course, everyone - including the woman that got him to this ebb - is out to destroy Don José. But if you know Carmen, you already knew that.
One should expect such a strange western to come from a creative force like Luigi Bazzoni, who also made two of the best giallo - The Possessed and The Fifth Cord - as well as one of the strangest, Footprints on the Moon.
Don José (Nero) is bewitched by Carmen (Tina Aumont, Arcana), even allowing her to escape an arrest which finds him demoted. He soon learns that she's also slept with Lt. Pepe (Franco Ressel, Blood and Black Lace) which makes him insane, so he kills the man and runs from the city. He's injured and barely makes it before being rescued by Carmen's family, which surprisingly has her husband Garcia (Klaus Kinski!) amongst them.
He wants to run to America with her. She says they need gold, gold that can only come from robbing a stagecoach with Garcia's gang. Of course, everyone - including the woman that got him to this ebb - is out to destroy Don José. But if you know Carmen, you already knew that.
One should expect such a strange western to come from a creative force like Luigi Bazzoni, who also made two of the best giallo - The Possessed and The Fifth Cord - as well as one of the strangest, Footprints on the Moon.