There’s the desert, vast high plains, and wild vegetation: all the ingredients for a film set in the barren lands of the Old Wild West. But the film was actually shot in Campo Imperatore (AQ), a plateau stretching out over 25km starting in the Gran Sasso-Monti della Laga National Park.
Trinity has just been on a long journey: he has crossed the desert (actually a tuff quarry in the suburbs of Rome off the motorway leading to Fiumicino) and is looking to rest at a ‘posada’.
In the western village reconstructed at De Paolis Studios in Rome, his brother, who has meanwhile been having a go at being sheriff, greets him rather coldly.
A nearby settlement of Mormons is, for different reasons, the main concern of both brothers: the location of the settlement is actually a small grassy plateau approximately 1,320m above sea level known as the Pianoro di Camposecco in Camerata Nuova (RM), a small municipality approximately 800m above sea level in the Monti Simbruini Regional Park, on the border between Lazio and Abruzzo.
In the camp, Trinity gets to know two women: in one scene they go for a swim near the Waterfalls of Monte Gelato, where the flow of the River Treja from the Cimini Mountains created a valley between Rome and Viterbo.
The two brothers cross one river specifically several times: a stretch of the River Tiber near Attigliano, in the province of Terni.
There’s the desert, vast high plains, and wild vegetation: all the ingredients for a film set in the barren lands of the Old Wild West. But the film was actually shot in Campo Imperatore (AQ), a plateau stretching out over 25km starting in the Gran Sasso-Monti della Laga National Park.
Trinity has just been on a long journey: he has crossed the desert (actually a tuff quarry in the suburbs of Rome off the motorway leading to Fiumicino) and is looking to rest at a ‘posada’.
In the western village reconstructed at De Paolis Studios in Rome, his brother, who has meanwhile been having a go at being sheriff, greets him rather coldly.
A nearby settlement of Mormons is, for different reasons, the main concern of both brothers: the location of the settlement is actually a small grassy plateau approximately 1,320m above sea level known as the Pianoro di Camposecco in Camerata Nuova (RM), a small municipality approximately 800m above sea level in the Monti Simbruini Regional Park, on the border between Lazio and Abruzzo.
In the camp, Trinity gets to know two women: in one scene they go for a swim near the Waterfalls of Monte Gelato, where the flow of the River Treja from the Cimini Mountains created a valley between Rome and Viterbo.
The two brothers cross one river specifically several times: a stretch of the River Tiber near Attigliano, in the province of Terni.
West film
Two brothers find themselves in the old wild west, one as a gunslinger and one as the sheriff. Full of shoot-outs, brawls and laughs.
