Watch unlimited films online for $6.99.
Try MUBI for FREE.
 

From the Clouds to the Resistance

Dalla nube alla resistenza

France, United Kingdom, Italy, West Germany

1979

104 Min
Color
1.37:1
Italian
  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

   |   

DIR Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub

PROD Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub

SCR Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Cesare Pavese

DP Giovanni Canfarelli Modica, Saverio Diamante

CAST Olimpia Carlisi, Guido Lombardi, Gino Felici, Lori Pelosini, Walter Pardini, Ennio Lauricella, Andrea Bacci, Loris Cavallini

ED Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub

SOUND Louis Hochet, Georges Vaglio

Cannes (Un Certain Regard)

Synopsis

Two segments. The first one arranges six stories from Cesare Pavese’s “Dialoghi con Leucò”, taken from classical mythology. The second segment is taken from Pavese’s novel “La luna e i falò”: after WWII the emigrant ‘The Bastard’ 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. —IMDb

Director

Original

Danièle Huillet

Daniele Huillet was a German filmmaker best known for her close collaboration, so close that it is often uncredited, with Modernist director Jean-Marie Straub. According to Huillet, she is mainly in charge of sound and editing while her partner deals with camera work, but she also assists with script-writing and directing. The films of Huillet and Straub are usually based on and offer historical insight into high German literature or music. Films such as Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach (1968) tend to be so intellectually demanding that they are rarely seen commercially, and are primarily to be found on the international festival circuits. Many of their works also tend to make strong political statements such as their examination of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Fortini (1976).

(From http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:95128) 

Original

Jean-Marie Straub

Filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet, his wife and co-director, have become leading figures in New German cinema. Their films are not for passive viewers seeking light entertainment; films such as Not Reconciled or Only Violence Helps Where Violence Rules (1965) are intellectually demanding, and yet are among the most haunting films of German cinema. Prior to teaming up with Huillet, the French born Straub worked as an assistant to French directors such as Abel Gance, Jean Renoir, and Robert Bresson. He met and teamed up with Huillet in 1954. To avoid the draft, he fled to Munich, Germany in 1958 where they got involved with radical theater groups. By the early sixties he and his wife had become a prominent directors. They made their debut with the short Machorka-Muff in 1963. In 1968, their long-time friend Fassbinder appeared in The Bridegroom, the Comedienne and the Pimp. Straub and Huillet’s most famous film is Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968). By the late ’60s… read more

Wall

Displaying 2 wall posts.
Picture of Blue K, Custodian of the Cinema

Blue K, Custodian of the Cinema

3Sep10

This is like a prequel to These Encounters of Theirs, isn't it?

InsertOzuReferencehere

20Aug10

The best Huillet/Straub i've seen so far!

Related Films

Fans

Displaying 5 of 47 fans.

Articles

Our roundup of essays and articles on this film.
W184

Politics and Aesthetics in the Straubs’ Films

By Ted Fendt on November 7, 2011

Jacques Rancière, Philippe Lafosse and the public in conversation about Straub-Huillet after a screening of their films.

read article

Lists

Displaying 5 of 32 lists.

Reviews

No reviews yet — Write the first

Forum

Displaying 0 discussion topics.