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Spaghetti Western, horror movies, gangster movies or soft erotic films. Some of these films belong to the era in which international co-productions were lavished, with several films shot in the former Yugoslavia. Perhaps the most internationally well-known film is the cult film he shot with horror film actor
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In 1963, Zabalza reached an agreement to direct his first film with a production company that is not of his property. The film had the provisional title of The noise of the silence, to later take the definitive title, and supposedly more commercial one, of I am not a murderer (1963). The film as its
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