Generál chudých
From The Spaghetti Western Database
Generál chudých (Czechoslovakia, 1974 / Director: Zdeněk Míka)
This is a Eurowestern- Runtime: 68 min.
- Release Date: 1974
Also known as
The General of the Poor Ones (English unofficial title).
Cast and Crew
- Cast: Jaroslav Moučka (Pancho Villa), Jaroslav Satoranský, Oldřich Musil, Jan Schánilec, Gabriela Vránová, Břetislav Slováček, Eva Hudečková, Vladimír Míka, Milan Klásek, Svatopluk Skládal, Josef Langmiler, Josef Vondráček, Vladimír Krška, František Hanus, Antonín Hardt, Zdeněk Braunschläger, Tomáš Sedláček, Petr Patera, Jan Řeřicha, Petr Svárovský.
- Story: John Reed (the book „Insurgent Mexico“)
- Screenplay: Karel Steigerwald
- Cinematography: Eduard Landisch
- Music: Vlastimil Pinkas
- Editor: Marie Pačajová
- Art decorator: Leopold Zeman
- Set decorator: Leopold Zeman
- Costume designer: Vojtěch Kolařík
- Masks: Vlasta Okrouhlíková, Petr Hovorka
- Sound: Svatava Hrubcová
Comment
Probably the only western in Czechoslovak cinema and television with the theme of the Mexican Revolution in the years 1910 - 1917 and with the character of the revolutionary Pancho Villa. It’s TV biographical film about Villa with iconographic elements of western. By Jan Švábenický
