Django | 4K UHD

Alongside the Great Silence, Django is the fundamental Spaghetti Western text not directed by Sergio Leone. Clint Eastwood may have been a major catalyst for the western boom in Europe as the genre began fading in American cinemas—where the horse opera was instead becoming a television staple—but Django is the film that truly set the mold for what Italy’s version of a cowboy movie would become.

Following Corbucci’s massive hit, there have been at least 35 other films marketed both officially and unofficially as successors to the original. Leone started a movement, but Corbucci defined the genre. 

The film turned an unknown Franco Nero into a huge star and its iconic imagery, both of the red hooded bandits and the lone gunslinger dragging a coffin behind him reverberated through cinematic texts across the world. From Tarantino’s modern homage, to Yasuhiro Nightow’s Trigun series, even to Jamaica’s Perry Henzel and his classic The Harder They Come. If you’ve seen the ‘Dollars Trilogy’ and don’t know where to go next, Django should be stop no. 1.

Special Features (via arrowvideo.com)

• Restoration of Django from a 4K scan of the original camera negative by Arrow Video
• 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation, in Dolby Vision, (HDR10 compatible)
• Uncompressed Mono 1.0 PCM audio
• Original English and Italian soundtracks
• English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
• Audio commentary by film critic, historian and theorist Stephen Prince
• Django Never Dies, an interview with star Franco Nero
• Cannibal of the Wild West, an interview with assistant director Ruggero Deodato
• Sergio, My Husband, an interview with Sergio Corbucci's wife Nori Corbucci
• That's My Life: Part 1, an archival interview with co-writer Franco Rossetti
• A Rock 'n' Roll Scriptwriter, an archival interview with co-writer Piero Vivarelli
• A Punch in the Face, an archival interview with stuntman and actor Gilberto Galimberti
• Discovering Django, an appreciation by spaghetti westerns scholar Austin Fisher
• An Introduction to Django by Alex Cox, an archival featurette with the acclaimed director
• Gallery of original promotional images from the Mike Siegel archive
• Original trailers
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sean Phillips