![]() ![]() Due to being started before but released in 1965 (a year after the genre breakthrough), it is sometimes disputed to be the “first” Spaghetti Western, meaning it sometimes gets lost in the shuffle. One notable Western - West and Soda - was an animated film parodying the Western genre. So, if you’re curious as to where were Spaghetti Westerns filmed (besides Italy), you can point to Spain. A few of these were Spanish-Italian Westerns, and Spain would later become a major co-financier in the sub-genre. They were not anything too special or drastic, simply Western-style films shot in Europe. In-between all this, some Italian filmmakers were making Westerns that did not raise much attention. ![]() These were films set in Greco-Roman periods, and were Italy’s answer to similar films of the day in Hollywood, such as The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, and Spartacus. Meanwhile, after the Italian Neorealism film movement of the 1940s and ‘50s, the Italian cinematic landscape became dominated by sword-and-sandal epics. ![]()
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