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Mon nom est Personne; Il mio nome è Nessuno
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Italy - France - Germany 1973 - 116 Min. |
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Jack Beauregard is already a legend in the wild west in his lifetime. However, he is older and tired of life in the West, which is why he plans to leave for Europe. But his farewell is not that easy. Someone is trying to kill him. His brother Nevada Joe and his friend Red have already been murdered. And then there is Nobody, a great admirer of Beauregard, who wants Beauregard to duel with the infamous wild horde. But Beauregard doesn't think about dueling with 150 people at the same time, who also ride and shoot as well as 1000. But this duel is part of Nobody's plan, which aims to give the great western legend Jack Beauregard a fitting farewell, and then to follow in the footsteps of his great role model himself.
Terence Hill worked here for the first time with Italo-Western veteran Sergio Leone, who had the idea for this film and also produced the film.
My name is Nobody was directed by Tonino Valerii, who previously shot A reason to live, a reason to die with Bud Spencer. However, it is known that a few scenes of the film were staged by Sergio Leone himself, e.g. the scene with the peeing train driver and the drinking game in the saloon. Officially mentioned as director is only Valerii.
With Terence Hill and Sergio Leone two real heavyweights of the Italo-Western met each other. With Once upon a time in the West and the dollar trilogy, Leone had delivered the most successful Italo western for a long time. Economically they were only surpassed by Enzo Barboni's Trinity movies starring Terence Hill. No wonder that also My name is Nobody became a great success.
A close friendship developed between Hill and Leone. They only worked together one more time (A genius, two partners and a dupe, 1975), but Leone aroused Hill's interest in working as a director himself and helped him with words and deeds. In an interview Hill told that Leone even visited him during the shooting of his directing debut Don Camillo (1983).
Hollywood star Henry Fonda can be seen in the role of the aging gunslinger Jack Beauregard. Fonda already shot Once upon a time in the West with Leone, but otherwise he was very successful mainly in Hollywood.
The soundtrack was written by Ennio Morricone, who also set Leone's previous successes to music. The soundtrack was released in 1973 in several countries as a Single and also on LP and has been re-released several times on CD, first on the Swiss label Alhambra in 1993 with the original tracklist, last in 2004 on GDM Music in Italy in an extended version.
The film is an Italian-French-German co-production. As a German production company, Berlin-based Rialto Film was involved, participating in a Terence Hill film for the first time after the four Karl May films.
The German version was created by Rainer Brandt Film in Berlin. Rainer Brandt personally wrote the dialogue book and also directed the dialogue. Terence Hill is again spoken by Thomas Danneberg. Rainer Brandt once again put all sorts of slogans into the protagonists' mouths that do not appear in the original version of the film. In this case, however, this procedure did not reach all viewers. Leone and Westernfans criticize that the atmosphere of the film suffers as a result. Fans of the Hill comedies, on the other hand, think that the German version is quite well done.
The film attracted more than 6.2 million viewers to German cinemas in 1973 and became an outstanding success. It is Terence Hill's most successful solo film in Germany, with the exception of his Karl May films, in which he was not to be seen in a leading role. The film was awarded the "Goldene Leinwand" (Golden Screen).
The Belgian cartoonist Jijé (Joseph Gillain) already accompanied the shooting on set to convert the original film directly into a comic. Unfortunately, the comic became nothing and it only remained with some concept drawings. Some of these drawings were later published in the French magazine Hop! in a special issue about the draughtsman Jijé.
The scene at the cemetery shows a gravestone of director Sam Peckinpah. He once refused to work with Sergio Leone. Nevertheless, the Wild Horde pays homage to Peckinpah's 1969 film "The Wild Bunch".
The steamship "President", which passes in the background when Jack Beauregard reads his letter to Nobody on the Sundowner, was built in 1924 as "Cincinnati" and got the name "President" only in 1934. The movie is set in 1899.
The charismatic villain in the saloon scene, whom Nobody calls "squirrel" because of his desperate grinding of teeth during the drinking game, is played by stuntman Neil Summers. Summers was later seen in Mr. Billion and finally played Deputy Virgil in Lucky Luke. 35 years after Nobody he was stunt coordinator at Doc West in 2008.
During the drinking game, Terence Hill actually drank whiskey. Terence wanted to play the scene as realistic as possible and insisted on real whisky, which was diluted with water. According to his own statements, it went to his head during the shooting.
Nobody's saddle was donated by Terence Hill to the artist Renato Casaro as a thank you for his successful poster campaign. In 1990 Casaro was even able to use it for riding, because he got a suitable horse for his work on "Dances with Wolves".
The film was shot partly in the USA and partly in Spain. American locations included the ghost town of Mogollon, Acoma Pueblo, Cobezon, White Sands and the mission of San Esteban del Rey (all in New Mexico), as well as the city of New Orleans. In Spain it was shot in Almería and Guadix.
Runtimes:
German Blu-ray: 115:46 minutes
German DVD: 111:47 minutes (music on black screen until the end)
Italian Blu-ray: 115:36 minutes
Spanish DVD: 110:29 minutes.
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Release Dates: |
13.12.1973 |
Germany |
Premiere |
6.287.013 Besucher |
14.12.1973 |
France |
Premiere |
4.732.136 Besucher |
21.12.1973 |
Italy |
Premiere |
18.03.1974 |
Spain |
Premiere |
1.795.893 Besucher |
26.07.1974 |
Finland |
Premiere |
192.770 Besucher |
24.11.1978 |
Germany |
Premiere |
DDR |
09.07.1981 |
Hungary |
Premiere |
1 496 907 db jegy kelt el |
17.08.1985 |
Germany |
Television premiere |
ZDF - 10,7 Millionen Zuschauer |
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Crew |
Music |
Ennio Morricone
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Writer |
Ernesto Gastaldi (Soggetto e Sceneggiatura), Fulvio Morsella (Soggetto), Sergio Leone (Da un'idea di)
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Master of Arms |
Benito Stefanelli (Maestro d'armi)
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Director of Photography |
Giuseppe Ruzzolini (Direttore della fotografia), Armando Nannuzzi (Direttore della fotografia; riprese in USA), Giuseppe Berardini (als Giuseppe Bernardini; Operatore alla machina), Elio Polacchi (Operatore alla machina), Federico Del Zoppo (Operatore alla machina), Angelo Novi (Fotografo di scena)
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Editor |
Nino Baragli (Montaggio), Rosanna Maiuri (Assistente al montaggio)
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Art Direction |
Gianni Polidori (Scenografia), Dino Leonetti (Aiuto scenografo), Massimo Tavazzi (Arredatore), Gilberto Carbonaro (Capo costruzioni)
| Costumes |
Vera Marzot (Costumi)
| Make up |
Nilo Jacoponi (Capo truccatore)
| Hair stylist |
Grazia De Rossi (Parrucchiera)
| Requisite |
Gianni Fiumi (Attrezzista)
| Sound |
Fernando Pescetelli (Fonico), Fausto Ancillai (Fonico mixage)
| Continiuity |
Rita Agostini (Segretaria di edizione)
| Special effects |
Giovanni Corridori (Artificiere)
| Production company |
Rafran Cinematografica S.p.A., Les Films Jacques Leitienne (Paris), La Societé Imp.Ex.CI. (Nice), La Societé Alcinter s.r.l. (Paris), Rialto Film (Berlin; als Rialto Film Preben Philipsen GmbH & Co. KG)
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Stefano Rolla (Aiuto regista)
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Producer |
Sergio Leone (presenta), Claudio Mancini (Produttore esecutivo), Fulvio Morsella (Prodotto da), Franco Coduti (Ispettore di produzione), Paolo Gargano (Ispettore di produzione), Piero Lazzari (Organizzatore riprese in USA)
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Director |
Sergio Leone (ungenannt, nur wenige Szenen mit Terence Hill), Tonino Valerii
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