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Compañeros (1970)

Compañeros poster
Original title
Vamos a matar, compañeros
Directed by
Sergio Corbucci
Genre
comedy film, Western film, Spaghetti Western, buddy film
Country
Germany, Italy, Spain
Runtime
1h 55m
Rated
18
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 115 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Mexican peasant and a Swedish arms dealer team up during a revolution. They work together to free a rebel leader from a fortified prison.

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What happens

Compañeros (Italian: Vamos a matar compañeros [sic], Spanish for 'Let's go killing, comrades!') is a 1970 Zapata Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Jack Palance, Iris Berben and Fernando Rey. The film is about a Mexican revolutionary peasant (Milian) who joins forces with an arms dealer (Nero) to rescue a rebel leader. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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