Corbucci's The Great Silence

Corbucci's The Great Silence

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Silence.The most acclaimed Spaghetti Western filmmaker not named Sergio Leone. That's an apt description for Sergio Corbucci, a prolific Italian director and screenwriter whose career spanned four decades. Although he directed comedies, horror films, and sand-and-scandal epics, Corbucci is best known for his Spaghetti Westerns, especially Django (1966). Inspired by his friend Leone, Corbucci crafted a violent, allegoric…