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Sergio Leone

A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS
PER UN PUGNO DI DOLLARI

• Director: Sergio Leone
• ITALY, SPAIN, WEST GERMANY / 1964 / DCP / Colour / 96’ / English, Italian, Spanish; Turkish s.t.

• Screenplay: Sergio Leone, A. Bonzzoni, Victor Andrés Catena, Jaime Comas Gil
• Director of Photography: Massimo Dallamano
• Editing: Roberto Cinquini
• Music: Ennio Morricone
• Cast: Clint Eastwood, José Calvo, Joseph Egger, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy, Gian Maria Volontè, Sieghardt Rupp, Margarita Lozano
• Producer: Arrigo Colombo, Giorgio Papi
• Production Co.: Jolly Film, Constantin Film, Ocean Films
• World Sales: Park Circus 

1965 Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Best Score

A Fistful of Dollars is the first instalment of Sergio Leone's Dollar Trilogy that catapulted him to stardom as the creator of the spaghetti western genre. Although it was inspired by Japanese legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, the similarities between the two films was so great that reportedly Kurosawa sent a letter to Leone saying, 'a fine movie, but it was my movie.' Leone's trademark in A Fistful of Dollars is his iconoclastic approach to western tropes of plot, space, and characters. As opposed to the classic western's absolute good cowboy restoring order and justice upon his timely arrival, the cowboy in A Fistful of Dollars is a cunning man who outsmarts two rival families and thus acquires gold. Of course, this film is the beginning of Clint Eastwood's career and his collaboration with Leone as it became his first leading role when production could not afford Henry Fonda.

This film is screened with the generous support of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Istanbul.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.