''The Wind's Fierce'' ( es, La cólera del viento, it, La collera del vento, also known as ''Revenge of Trinity'', ''Trinity Sees Red'' and ''The Wind's Anger'') is a 1970 Spanish-Italian western-drama film written and directed by

Mario Camus Mario Camus García (20 April 1935 – 18 September 2021) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He won the Golden Bear at the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival with '' La colmena''. His 1987 film ''The House of Bernarda Alba'' w ...

Plot

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, the late nineteenth century. Wealthy landowner Don Antonio hires two assassins, Marcos and Jacobo, to infiltrate a group of peasant revolutionaries and kill the leaders. After falling in love with the rebel Soledad, Marcos has a change of heart and decides to unite with the peasants.

Cast

* Terence Hill as Marcos *

Maria Grazia Buccella Maria Grazia Buccella (born August 15, 1940) is an Italian glamour model and film actress, who was Miss Italy 1959. Career Buccella won the Miss Trento, Miss Venice, and Miss Italy beauty pageants, and placed third in the Miss Europe 1959 com ...

as Soledad *

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as Jacobo * Máximo Valverde as Ramón *

Fernando Rey Fernando Casado Arambillet (La Coruña (Spain), 20 September 1917 – Madrid (Spain), 9 March 1994), best known as Fernando Rey, was a Spanish film, theatre, and television actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States. A suave, i ...

as Don Antonio *

Ángel Lombarte Ángel Lombarte is a Spanish actor. He appeared in ''La piel quemada'', '' The Blood Spattered Bride'' (1972), starring Simón Andreu, Maribel Martin, Alexandra Bastedo and Dean Selmier; '' La collera del vento'' (1970), starring Maria Grazia Buc ...

as José * William Layton as Don Lucas *

Manuel Alexandre Manuel Alexandre Abarca OAXS MML (11 November 1917 – 12 October 2010) was a Spanish film and television actor. Career He was a popular supporting actor. He won an Honorary Goya Award in 2003 for his career achievements. Filmography in ...

as Agustín *

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as Rafael

Reception

Although set in

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, this film is often classified as a

spaghetti-western The Spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's film-making style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most of ...

due to themes, scenes and settings deliberately evocative of the western genre. Terence Hill gives a dramatic performance in his last film before attaining international stardom with '' They Call Me Trinity''. After the success of that movie, ''The Wind's Fierce'' was re-released in many countries as a "Trinity" sequel and misleadingly marketed as a comedy.

References

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* 1970 films 1970 Western (genre) films Italian Western (genre) films Spanish Western (genre) films Spaghetti Western films Films directed by Mario Camus 1970s Italian films {{1970s-drama-film-stub