Europa canta
Europa canta
| 09 July 1966 (USA)
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Little Europe, a town in the American West, is chosen as the site for a European Music Festival to be internationally broadcast via television. The peace of the village is put in jeopardy when it comes to electing judges because the dormant antagonisms of the descendants of Italian, Spanish, French and Germans will be awakened, but the good sheriff easily resolves the dispute. Then the problem becomes more acute when the lawyer Betty, a comely young lady, who is late in coming to the event because she was seized by the henchmen of an industry bully who wants to influence the victory of one of his favorite songs.

Reviews
Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
Fortuna Light Dilletant actors try to do a modern Italowestern. In an American western-village called names "Europa" there is an European Song Contest about to take place. Reason enough to scrabble senselessly musical numbers in the action Slapstick montage (partly black and white). Not even bearable for Trash-lovers, just bitter. Interesting: Young Mary Roos singing while the opening-Credits take place. Better not say anything about Vivi Bach's acting. Well, she is dressed interesting and does look good. The mixture of western, mafia-play and song parade in Italo-humor style is close to weirdness and the colorful settings confuse even the more. The jokes are of bad taste and therefore shooting and fist fighting is more relevant to bring on the "story". A complete waste of energy, therefore no wonder that the film is completely unknown to the public. The participants will be glad to hear, that this oeuvre is just a dark spot in Movie history.