Not America, nor Africa, but the Lazio countryside provides the backdrop for this intricate story of death and more or less incestuous love affairs, inspired by the successful American film Mandingo.
Production
Lazio countryside hilariously substituting for antebellum American South.
Costume
Questionable period accuracy that screams 1970s Italian fashion leftovers.
Director
Mario Pinzauti
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of 1970s Italy's bizarre cottage industry of American Southern gothic knock-offs, capitalizing on Mandingo's commercial success without understanding its context.
Director Mario Pinzauti spent his entire career in exploitation — this was somehow not his most questionable decision.