Sometimes also known as Kill and Say Your Prayers, Requiescant is a spaghetti western directed by Carlo Lizzani in 1968. Lizzani was a journalist and film critic who published a major survey of Italian film, Il Cinema Italiano, in 1953. He has written and directed a number of films, many of them social dramas ‘marred’ (in the words of Ephraim Katz’s Film Encyclopaedia) ‘by the director’s overly dogmatic Marxist ideology on the one hand and by commercial requirements on the other.’ He is also a theatre director.