If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death

If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
Italian theatrical release poster
Directed by	Gianfranco Parolini[1]
Screenplay by	Renato Izzo Gianfranco Parolini Theo Maria Werner[2]
Story by	Luigi De Santis Fabio Piccioni Adolfo Cagnacci[2]
Produced by	Aldo Addobbati Theo Maria Werner[1]
Starring	Gianni Garko William Berger Sydney Chaplin Gianni Rizzo Fernando Sancho Klaus Kinski
Cinematography	Sandro Mancori[1]
Edited by	Edmond Lozzi[1]
Music by	Piero Piccioni[1]
Production companies	Paris Etoile Film Parnass Film[2]
Distributed by	Paris Etoile Film (Italy)[2] Nora (West Germany)[3]
Release dates	14 August 1968 (1968-08-14) (Italy) 22 August 1969 (1969-08-22) (Germany)
Running time	97 minutes[3]
Countries	Italy West Germany[1]

If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death (Italian: Se incontri Sartana prega per la tua morte) is a 1968 Spaghetti Western film directed by Gianfranco Parolini. The film stars Gianni Garko, William Berger, Fernando Sancho and Klaus Kinski, and features a musical score by Piero Piccioni.

If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death was the first in a series of Spaghetti Westerns based on the character Sartana. It was followed by four other official Sartana films: I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death (Sono Sartana, il vostro becchino, 1969), Have a Good Funeral, My Friend... Sartana Will Pay (Buon funerale, amigos!... paga Sartana, 1970), Light the Fuse... Sartana Is Coming (Una nuvola di polvere... un grido di morte... arriva Sartana, 1970) and Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin (C'è Sartana... vendi la pistola e comprati la bara, 1970), in the last of which Garko was replaced by George Hilton. The four sequels were directed by Giuliano Carnimeo, Parolini was chosen to direct The Sabata Trilogy, after producer Alberto Grimaldi saw his work on the first Sartana film.^[4] As with Django a few years earlier, several directors, such as Demofilo Fidani, made unofficial sequels to cash in on the success of Sartana.