''Requiescant'', also known as ''Kill and Pray'', is a 1967
Spaghetti Western
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Carlo Lizzani
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Born in Rome, before World War II Lizzani worked as a scenarist on such films as Roberto Rossellini's ''Germany Year Zero'', ...
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Synopsis
After surviving his family being massacred, a young boy is taken in and raised by a priest. Years later he comes face to face with the man that killed his family and he is tempted back into violence.
Selected cast
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Lou Castel
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The son of a Swedish father and an Irish mother, Castel was born Ulv Quarzell in Bogotá, Colombia, where his fa ...
: Jeremy ("Requiescant")
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Mark Damon
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: George Bellow Ferguson
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
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: Don Juan
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Barbara Frey
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* ' (1958)
* ' (1960)
* ''What Is Father Doing in Italy?'' (1961)
* '' Love at Twenty'' (1962)
* ''I M ...
: Princy
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Rossana Martini
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(as Rossana Krisman): Lope
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Franco Citti
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: Burt
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Ninetto Davoli
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Biography
Davoli was born in San Pietro a Maida, Calabria. He was discovered by poet, novelist ...
(as Nino Davoli): El Nino
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Lorenza Guerrieri
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: Marta
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released a limited edition region 0 NTSC DVD on 1 November 2004, preserving the film's original widescreen aspect ratio. The DVD has the English title ''Kill and Pray'' on the box art but the title on the print used for the DVD transfer is the original Italian ''Requiescant'' title. The 2004 DVD is currently out of print, but the film was re-released under the title ''Kill and Pray'' in another limited edition R0 NTSC DVD in 2011 alongside ''Dead Men Don't Count'', also starring Mark Damon.
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1967 films
1967 Western (genre) films
Spaghetti Western films
West German films
1960s Italian-language films
Films directed by Carlo Lizzani
Films scored by Riz Ortolani
1960s Italian films
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