France, Italy, West Germany, UK, 1979
104m
35mm film, Eastmancolor
mono, Italian
A French/Italian/West German/British fantasy film directed by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub.
Plot Summary
A two part anthology film. The first story is taken from Roman mythology while the second tells the story of a man’s return home from the Second World War to find that life in his northern Italian village can never be the same again.
Credits
Crew
A film by: Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
© [not given on screen]
L’Institut national de l’audiovisuel presents. With RAI-TV, Rete 2, Janus Film & Fernsehen and Artificial Eye
Texts by Cesare Pavese Dialoghi con Leucò Einaudi 1947, La luna e i falò Einaudi 1950
Directors of Photography: Saverio Diamante, Giovanni Canfarelli
Electrician: Francesco Ragusa
Grip: Gianfranco Baldacci
Developing and Printing: Luciano Vittori
Music Directed by: Gustav Leonhardt
Sound: Louis Hochet, Georges Vaglio
Transcription: Fono Rete
Costumes: Cantini
Footwear: Pompei
Hairdresser: Silvana Todero
Assistants: Leo Mingrone, Isaline Panchaud, Manfred Blank, Rotraud Kühn, Vincent Nordon, Stéphanie de Mareuil, Paolo Pederzolli
“en souvenir d’Yvonne, sans qui il m’y aurait point de Straub-Films” J-M.S.
Cast
“first part”
1.
Olimpia Carlisi (The Cloud)
Guido Lombardi (Issione)
2.
Gino Felici (Ippòloco)
Lori Pelosini (Sarpedonte)
3.
Walter Pardini (Edipo)
Ennio Lauricella (Tiresia)
4.
Andrea Bacci (first hunter)
Loris Cavallini (second hunter)
5.
Francesco Ragusa (Litierse)
Fiorangelo Pucci (Eracle)
6.
Dolando Bernardini (father)
Andrea Filippi (son)
“second part”
Mauro Monni (the bastard)
Carmelo Lacorte (Nuto)
Mario di Mattia (Cinto)
Luigi Giordanello (Valino)
Paolo Cinanni (the knight)
Maria Eugenia T., Alberto Signetto, Paolo Pederzolli, Ugo Bertone, Gianni Canfarelli, Domenico Carrosso, Sandro Signetto, Antonio Mingrone (people in bar)
Gianni Toti (the priest)
Alternative Titles
De la nuée à la résistance – France
From the Clouds to the Resistance – UK
Von der Wolke zum Widerstand – West Germany
References
Periodicals
- Cahiers du Cinéma no.305 (November 1979) pp.5-13; 14-19 – review; interview with Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
- Cineforum no.196 (July/August 1980) pp.479-485 – article
- Cineforum no.453 (April 2006) pp.2-9 – illustrated article (Dalla nube alla resistenza: Il verdi il sangue la roccia by Rinaldo Censi)
- Cinéma no.253 (January 1980) pp.78-81 – review
- Cinéma Français no.26 (1979) p.12 – credits
- Filmcritica no.299 (October 1979) pp.356-366 – review
- Filmkritik no.268 (April 1979) pp.159-173 – review
- Filmkritik no.287 (November 1980) pp.476-515 – script
- Filmkritik no.288 (December 1980) pp.520-545 – articles
- Monthly Film Bulletin vol.47 no.554 (March 1980) pp.45-46, 47 – credits, synopsis, review
- Monthly Film Bulletin vol.47 no.557 (June 1980) p.119 – note
- Sight and Sound vol.19 no.12 (December 2009) pp.38-41 – illustrated article (The greatest film-makers you’ve never heard of by Tag Gallagher)
- Télérama no.1556 (7 Nov 1979) p.127 – review
- Time Out no.511 (1 February 1980) pp.20-21; 53 – review; illustrated review
Other Sources
- 63rd Venice Film Festival Catalogue (August 2006) pp.270-271 – credits, synopsis
