Summer cinema— 
Desperado

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Des­per­a­do
Robert Rodriguez — USA/​Mexico — 1995 — 104 min­utes — Eng­lish + Czech subtitles

He was once the best Mari­achi (gui­tarist and singer) on the U.S. – Mex­i­co bor­der. But one day, he acci­den­tal­ly crossed the inter­ests of the local drug car­tel and was forced to fight for his life. In the bru­tal con­fronta­tion, the deal­ers killed his beau­ti­ful girl­friend and maimed his hand. Now, instead of a gui­tar, he car­ries an impres­sive arse­nal of firearms in his case, and revenge has become the sole pur­pose of his life. The last of the deal­ers (all the oth­ers have already paid for their mis­take with their lives), named Bucho, is as pow­er­ful as he is ruth­less — and before the final show­down can hap­pen, Mari­achi must lit­er­al­ly shoot his way through an army of blood­thirsty henchmen. 

Des­per­a­do was direct­ed by young His­pan­ic-Amer­i­can film­mak­er Robert Rodriguez as a sequel to his semi-ama­teur debut El Mari­achi. A film enthu­si­ast, Rodriguez made the first movie for just sev­en thou­sand dol­lars, which he earned as a test sub­ject in med­ical tri­als for exper­i­men­tal drugs. He cast friends and rel­a­tives in the main roles, direct­ed it him­self, oper­at­ed the cam­era, and even did the edit­ing. The fin­ished film — about a wan­der­ing musi­cian mis­tak­en for a hit­man who ends up in a dead­ly con­flict with a local drug gang — caught the atten­tion of Colum­bia Pic­tures, which gave it wider dis­tri­b­u­tion. Crit­ics praised the styl­ish flair of the low-bud­get film, and audi­ences loved it. Rodriguez became a Hol­ly­wood favorite. The sequel, Des­per­a­do, star­ring Anto­nio Ban­deras in the lead role, was shot under ful­ly pro­fes­sion­al con­di­tions, cost a thou­sand times more than the orig­i­nal, and wowed both jour­nal­ists and audi­ences at the Cannes Film Festival.

Prac­ti­cal information:
—sound will be trans­mit­ted via headphones
—we’re hap­py to lend you blan­kets on site
—in case of rain, the screen­ing will be can­celed; tick­ets will remain valid and a new date will be announced in time
—tick­et capac­i­ty: 200
—tick­et price: 150 CZK