Maverick British filmmaker Alex Cox is responsible for directing a host of acclaimed films from Sleep is for Sissies, Repo Man, Sid and Nancy, Straight to Hell, Walker and Highway Patrolman to Death and the Compass, Three Businessmen, Revenger's Tragedy, Searchers 2.0 and more recently Tombstone Rashomon. From 1987 to 1994, he presented the acclaimed BBC TV series 'Moviedrome', bringing unknown or forgotten films to new audiences. He's also the author of X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker, 10,000 Ways to Die, The President and the Provocateur and Alex Cox's Introduction to Film and has written on the subject of film for publications including Sight and Sound, The Guardian, The Independent and Film Comment. ;His latest film, ;Dead Souls, based on Gogol's book of the same name, was ;released in 2025. The screenplay will be available later in 2026 from Kamera Books. ;Gianni Garko (born Giovanni Garcovich) is a Croatian-Italian actor. He found fame as a leading man in 1960s Spaghetti Westerns, where he was often billed as John Garko and occasionally Gary Hudson. He is perhaps best known for his lead role as Sartana, starting with the first official film ;If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death ;and starring in three sequels as this character.

An old anarchist's nostalgic fantasia, blending Western themes in thewake of contemporary politics that he can't quite rationalize