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Sad Hill Unearthed

2018 · 83 min

A warm, earnest tribute to fandom and film history, watching ordinary people lovingly resurrect a legendary movie location.

Directed by: Guillermo de Oliveira
Genres: Documentary, History
Starring: David Alba, Sergio García, Diego Montero

Tagline: The film was over. The story had only started.
Overview: Province of Burgos, northern Spain, October 2015. A group of fans undertake the titanic task of restoring the location of the last scene of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the mythical spaghetti western directed by Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone in 1966.

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Directed by: Guillermo de Oliveira
Genres: Documentary, History
Starring: David Alba, Sergio García, Diego Montero

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
upliftingstrength 1 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: art
memory
friendship
work
healing
Places: countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: documentary
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Complexity	4
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Genres: documentary, history
Directed by: Guillermo de Oliveira
Written by: Guillermo de Oliveira
Starring: David Alba, Sergio García, Diego Montero, Joseba del Valle, Christopher Frayling, Peter J. Hanley, Eugenio Alabiso, Sergio Salvati
Music: Zeltia Montes
Cinematography: Guillermo de Oliveira
Runtime: 83 min
Country: Spain
Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish

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