From the Clouds to the Resistance

From the Clouds to the Resistance
Directed by
Written byCesare Pavese
Danièle Huillet
Jean-Marie Straub
Produced byDanièle Huillet
Jean-Marie Straub
StarringOlimpia Carlisi
CinematographySaverio Diamante
Giovanni Canfarelli Modica
Release date
  • 7 November 1979 (1979-11-07)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

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]

Cast

Plot

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.

  • Part Two:

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.

References

  1. ^ "New York Times: From the Clouds to the Resistance". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2011. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2008.
  2. ^ "Festival de Cannes: From the Clouds to the Resistance". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 25 May 2009.


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