Keoma
Keoma is a 1976 film from Italy, directed by Enzo G. Castellari, running 97 minutes. reelscum files it under spaghetti western.
- Year
- 1976 · 1970s films
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Director
- Enzo G. Castellari
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- known (28/100)
Defined in the glossary: Spaghetti western
Late, strange, half-sung by a folk narrator. Castellari's best film.
Late, strange and half-sung. Enzo Castellari makes an elegiac, almost supernatural western in which a mixed-race gunfighter returns to a plague-ridden town run by his own half-brothers, while a folk narrator comments on the action in song and Death appears as an old woman.
Franco Nero is excellent, the slow-motion violence is operatic, and the whole thing feels like the genre reaching for myth as it dies. The singing narration divides people; it is either haunting or ridiculous.
The last great spaghetti western, and the most ambitious of Castellari's career.
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