spaghetti western
The success of Sergio Leone's Per un pugno di dollari (A Fistful of Dollars, 1964) sparked two good things - the career of its star Clint Eastwood - and what must to be the biggest of all Italian movie genres - the Spaghetti Western. I have read somewhere that something like 400(!) of them were made between 1964 and 1972. In 1965 Franco Nero dragged a coffin through a muddy landscape as Django in Sergio Corbucci's extremely violent masterpiece. Other heroes were Ringo, Sabata, Sartana, Shango etc. Five years later the crazy humor of Lo chiamavano Trinità (They Call Me Trinity) by former cinematographer Enzo Barboni, paved the way for a new subgenre as well as for the team of Terence Hill and Bud Spencer. Although the output of Spaghetti Westerns decreased in the first half of the 70s the genre has never completely vanished.
Ca 1964- 		Django
Franco Nero is Django.