- Year
- 1966
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Director
- Damiano Damiani
- Updated
- 9 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- known (24/100)
- Also known as
- El Chucho Quien Sabe?: A Bullet for the General · El Chuncho Quien Sabe?: A Bullet for the General · El Chucho Quién Sabe?
A Bullet for the General
The most openly political of the Zapata cycle, and the sharpest.
The most openly political of the Zapata cycle, and the sharpest. An American gun for hire attaches himself to a Mexican bandit turned revolutionary, and the film slowly reveals which of them understands what the revolution is actually for.
Damiano Damiani directs it as a genuine argument about solidarity and betrayal, with Gian Maria Volonte excellent as the bandit and a young Klaus Kinski as a Bible-quoting killer. The final line is a call to arms.
A western that means its politics. One of the cycle's most substantial films.
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