Folco Lulli plays the troubled Maremmano (lit. ‘sheep dog’ which actually has some ‘bite’ in Italian but sounds thoroughly flat in English), a seemingly petty criminal who has spent most of his life in and out of jail. Stubborn to the last, his crisis of conscience finally comes when he’s placed in a cell with two soldiers convicted of a crime which he committed.

For the most part a prison drama, Redemption also manages to throw in an effective giallo-styled narrative for the first half of its running time, through a series of flashbacks which combine two different points-of-view of the murders to ultimately get to the truth.

There is also some historically interesting, if somewhat rather grim, location footage of a village in ravaged post-war Italy which appears to have been bombed to near total destruction.

Brothers Folco and Piero Lulli were both top-billed actors for most of their lengthy careers, appearing in over a hundred films (each)

In his autobiography ‘Il Bianco Spara’ Enzo Castellari considers this his father’s most accomplished film.

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Availability

VHS (probably USA/NTSC sourced) / English (fan) Subtitles

Note: A more recent remastered print was broadcast by RAI some time between 2010 and 2020 – a brief clip was posted then deleted from YouTube.