The Taste of Violence

The film is set in a country in Latin America. The time is the end of the nineteenth century. A repressive government holds the country. There are guerrillas in the hills. Perez is one of their leaders. One day he stops a train. The president’s daughter is on it. Perez takes her. What he wants is an exchange. In return he asks for fifty of his comrades. They are being held by the army. He sets out with two of his men. The road runs through hostile country. They have to bring the young woman to headquarters. But the three men fall out before long. Robert Hossein and Giovanna Ralli take the leads, with Mario Adorf also in the cast, in Robert Hossein’s French, German and Italian coproduction of 1961.