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Alleluja & Sartana are Sons... Sons of God

Alleluja & Sartana are Sons... Sons of God (Alleluja e Sartana figli di... Dio)

Movie · 1972 · 3 people

Alleluja e Sartana figli di... Dio, released in English as Alleluja & Sartana are Sons... Sons of God, is a spaghetti western comedy produced jointly by Italy and West Germany and in cinemas from December 1972. Mario Siciliano directed it from a script by Adriano Bolzoni. Filmed in Italian and running about 101 minutes, it was shown in Germany as 100 Fäuste und ein Vaterunser ("100 Fists and a Prayer"); the French title is Alleluia et Sartana, fils de... and the Spanish one Les llamaban Aleluya y Sartana.

The leading names are Alberto Dell'Acqua, Ron Ely and Uschi Glas. Carla Mancini, Ezio Marano, Lars Bloch, Nello Pazzafini, Enzo Andronico, Angelika Ott, Dante Maggio, Stelio Candelli and Dan van Husen are also in the cast. Otto Retzer produced the film and Elvio Monti composed the music.

In keeping with a common practice of the time, the two names in the title were attached without any connection to the original adventure series built around those characters. The film is therefore not a continuation of that series but a standalone comedy western that borrows the popular names, part of the lighter comedy westerns Italian producers made in the early 1970s.

DirectorMario Siciliano

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Alberto Dell'Acqua Alberto Dell'Acqua Actor · born 1938 Lars Bloch Lars Bloch Actor · died at 83 Nello Pazzafini Nello Pazzafini Actor · died at 62

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Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

Even the title is fun: in Germany it ran as "100 Fists and a Prayer", which tells you roughly what you're in for. This isn't a tense, serious western but a light comedy one. If you want hard-edged duels and real suspense, you may come away disappointed. For switching off and getting a few laughs, though, a hundred minutes isn't bad. One warning: don't see the name Sartana and expect a sequel to that series.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humour and heart.

It's a spaghetti western, but a comedy first, so I wouldn't expect anything very harsh. The German title suggests more fistfights than anything else. Still, it's a 1972 film, and its language and jokes may feel dated to today's kids. Good to watch with western-loving grandparents and teenagers. With small children, it's worth an adult checking it first.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

The film lays bare the marketing reflex of the early-1970s Italian western industry: the names Alleluja and Sartana were put on the poster with no link to those characters' original series. What we have, then, is not a sequel but a standalone comedy western trading on the shine of familiar names. Mario Siciliano's direction and Adriano Bolzoni's script belong to the genre's light, jokey branch of the time. In productions like this, formula overtaking invention was almost a given, and the film's very identity rests on a borrowed label. For anyone curious about the genre's industrial history it is an interesting period specimen; for someone after an original western, a weak stop.

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