I had never heard of Django before but discovered an apparently fictionalized version of his story by watching this eponymous film. Other reviewers have weighed in to point out that the major co-protagonist (the woman with whom he has an affair and who ends up apparently shot by the Nazis) never existed. Surely there was enough true material to be able to fill up a single feature-length film without making the major plotline completely false?
Overall, this is not a bad Nazi occupation movie, setting aside questions of accuracy. The structure is very similar to The Pianist, except that the budgets were wildly different, so the scale of the the production is completely different.
Overall, this is not a bad Nazi occupation movie, setting aside questions of accuracy. The structure is very similar to The Pianist, except that the budgets were wildly different, so the scale of the the production is completely different.