A Bullet for the General

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A Bullet for the General
Directed by	Damiano Damiani
Produced by	Bianco Manini
Written by	Salvatore Laurani (story) Franco Solinas
Starring	Gian Maria Volontè Klaus Kinski
Release date(s)	1967
Running time	135 min.
Country	Italy
Language	Italian
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A Bullet for the General (It. El Chuncho, quién sabe?), is a 1967 film which starred Gian Maria Volonte, Klaus Kinski, Lou Castel and Martine Beswick. Originally entitled El Chuncho, quién sabe?, it is the story of El Chuncho, the bandit, and Bill Tate (or El Gringo) who is a counter-revolutionary in Mexico. Chuncho soon learns that social revolution is more important than mere money. This is one of the more famous Zapata Westerns, a subgenre of the spaghetti western which deals with the radicalizing of bad men and bandits into revolutionaries when they are confronted with injustice. Others in this subgenre include Companeros, The Mercenary and perhaps most famously A Fistful of Dynamite (also known as Duck, You Sucker).