Civil War vets return home to find their women don't need them—and one of them will die for it.
A group of retired soldiers return from the Civil War to Texas, where they are no longer tolerated by the women who have become independent because of their unsuitability. The failed partnership ends in murder by poison and flight. One exception is a young woman who leaves the phalanx of women out of love. The comedy, disguised as an idyll, refers in many ways to classic models in the genre of the western and the home movie.
Direction
Vogeler's deadpan idyll that slowly curdles into something nasty.
Production
Spanish locations pretending to be Texas with glorious shamelessness.
Director
Volker Vogeler
Harry Baer
Bogdan Witkow, Julia's Boyfriend
Tilo Prückner
Crazy Butch, Soldier
Hugo Blanco
John O'Brien, Sargeant
Eduardo Fajardo
Dynamite Dick
George Rigaud
Marshall
Daniel Martín
Juan Hernandez
Montserrat Julió
Cecily Breidlinger
Cris Huerta
Robert Breidlinger
Lone Fleming
Lily Dykler, Teacher
Luis Induni
Bill Flanagan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Harry Baer was a Fassbinder regular; this was his brief, bizarre vacation into Euro-Western territory.
Part of a 1970s wave of feminist-tinged westerns made by European directors who saw America's genre as ripe for ideological hijacking.
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