Sam Peckinpah: Portrait (2006)

• 75%
• 2006
• Documentary
• Umberto Berlenghini
• Michelangelo D'alto
• R.G. Armstrong
• Senta Berger
• James Coburn

Male friendship and loyalty till death. Drawing from this philosophy, that underlies all the cinema of Sam Peckinpah, the documentary presents rare backstage images, movie trailers, TV commercials, music videos, sequences from his films, and comments by relatives, favorite actors, and some of the scholars who have studied his films thoroughly. Precisely thanks to these witnesses, it is possible to re-experience Peckinpah's childhood and the various stages on the way to the lifestyle, that was to become a film style, which made Sam's 'touch' unforgettable for all those who met him and loved his films. The portrait that emerges represents a man who turns out to be very similar to the heroes that he would skillfully outline by way of images; a man filled with a passionate lust for life and devoted to an authentic and disinterested kind of friendship that cuts across time and social convention.