From the Clouds to the Resistance | |
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Directed by | |
Written by |
Cesare Pavese Danièle Huillet Jean-Marie Straub |
Produced by | Danièle Huillet Jean-Marie Straub |
Starring | Olimpia Carlisi |
Cinematography | Saverio Diamante Giovanni Canfarelli Modica |
Release date |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
From the Clouds to the Resistance ( Italian: Dalla nube alla resistenza, literally From the Cloud to the Resistance) is a 1979 Italian drama film directed by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub. [1] It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. [2]
Philosophical conversations between mythological characters including Nephele/The Cloud ( Olimpia Carlisi) and Issione/ Ixion ( Guido Lombardi), Ippòloco/ Hippolochus ( Gino Felici) and Sarpedonte/ Sarpedon ( Lori Pelosini), Edipo/ Oedipus ( Walter Pardini) and Tiresias ( Ennio Lauricella), two hunters ( Andrea Bacci and Lori Cavallini) discussing reincarnation of humans punished by the gods, Litierse/ Lityerses and Eracle/ Heracles (Francesco Ragusa and Fiorangelo Pucci), and a father and son ( Dolando Bernardini and Andrea Filippi) who are burning a fire as an annual sacrifice to the land.
Taken from Cesare Pavese's novel, La Luna e i Falò
After WWII, the emigrant 'The Bastard' ( Mauro Monni) comes back to his village in the Langhe (northern Italy) to find that everyone he knew has died and the war has deeply changed relationships between people.