# Django Unchained (2012)

> A formerly enslaved gunslinger joins a German bounty hunter to reclaim his wife from a Mississippi plantation in Quentin Tarantino’s flamboyant revisionist western.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/47924

## Facts

- Runtime: 165 min
- Genres: Drama, Western
- Director: Quentin Tarantino
- Cast: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins, Dennis Christopher, James Remar
- TMDB rating: 8.2/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1853728/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: extreme
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: graphic
- Mood: irreverent, visceral, darkly comic, tarantino marathon, western night

## Synopsis

A former slave teams up with a bounty hunter to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner.

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