Film Screening: Sergio Corbucci's "The Great Silence (Il Grande Silenzio)"

Film Screening: Sergio Corbucci's "The Great Silence (Il Grande Silenzio)"
Date
Wed January 29th 2014, 7:00pm
Location
Building 260, Room 113

Speaker(s): Natalie Deam

Sergio Corbucci’s masterpiece is today recognized as one of the greatest westerns ever made, but upon release in 1968 the film had only moderate success in Europe and was not even released in the US. Often called "that western in the snow" the film is set in Utah during a very cold winter. In Snow Hill bounty hunters kill the local outlaws to collect the bounty. The leader of the bounty hunters, Loco (Klaus Kinski) has joined hands with corrupt banker, who wants to ‘clean up’ Snow Hill. The only one who dares to oppose them, is the mysterious mute gunslinger Silence (Jean Louis Tritignant), who always draws second, but shoots first. The Great Silence is a dark Western, but also a political movie about the rich paying scum to kill the poor. The outlaws stole to survive, and only became ‘outlaws’ because there was an exceptionally high price on their head.