An Opera of Violence

Nov 18, 2003

0h 29m

★ 6.0

Overview

First part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released in 1968. (Followed by The Wages of Sin.)

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Lipsync Productions

Paramount Pictures

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Cast

Self - Filmmaker

Bernardo Bertolucci

Self - Actress

Claudia Cardinale

Self - Filmmaker

John Carpenter

Self - Filmmaker

Alex Cox

Self - DOP

Tonino Delli Colli

Self - Actor

Gabriele Ferzetti

Self - Writer

Christopher Frayling

Self - Filmmaker

John Milius

Self - Actor (archive footage)

Henry Fonda

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Sergio Leone

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