Gian Maria Volonté
Le ranger nordiste
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Wind from the East ( French: Le Vent d'est) is a 1970 film by the Dziga Vertov Group, a radical filmmaking cooperative that, at its core, included Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin.
Wind from the East: Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Gérard Martin. With Gian Maria Volontè, Anne Wiazemsky, Cristiana Tullio-Altan, Allen Midgette. A filmic essay on class struggle which draws on images from westerns but has no plot and is both an experiment in making a revolutionary film and an interrogation of how ...
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- 1970-08-19
- Drama
- 95
An east wind is a wind that originates in the east and blows in a westward direction. This wind is referenced as symbolism in culture, mythology, poetry, and literature.
Recounting the cultural and political odyssey of French students and intellectuals in the 1960s, The Wind from the East illustrates how the Maoist phenomenon unexpectedly sparked a democratic political sea change in France.
- (21)
- 2010
- Richard Wolin
Starting with the idea of making a left-wing spaghetti western in Italy, Jean-Luc Godard wrote a story about the kidnapping of an executive by strikers. This situation moves through a series of practical and analytical passages into a finale based around the process of manufacturing weapons.
Recounting the cultural and political odyssey of French students and intellectuals in the 1960s, The Wind from the East illustrates how the Maoist phenomenon unexpectedly sparked a democratic political sea change in France.
A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an attack on all cinematic conventions to date and a debate on the nature and possibility of revolutionary cinema.
