20° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Special Screenings 2002

Il grande silenzio

The Great Silence
by Sergio Corbucci
Country: Italy, France
Year: 1968
Duration: 105'


One of the best political Italian-style westerns ever, one of the best examples of the fertile anarchy which ruled Italian cinema at the time. In a mountain village surrounded by eternal snow, a group of bandits is on the loose. They were forced to become outlaws by a usurer and a ferocious bounty hunter (Klaus Kinski). A mute killer (Trintignant) and a government agent arrive on the scene, changing everything . The English-language copy preserved at the Film Library in Monaco features the two endings planned by Corbucci: who will win, the good guys or the bad?

Biography

film director

Sergio Corbucci

Sergio Corbucci (Rome 1927-1990) began his professional career as a journalist. In 1952 he made his first film, Island Sinner. His first true commercial success was The Two Marshals (1961), with Totñ and Vittorio De Sica. He then tried his hand at westerns, with Django! (1966), Navajo Joe (1966) and Il Grande Silenzio (1968). At the end of 1970's made two mystery movies on location in Naples, The Payoff (1978) and Neapolitan Mystery (1979). During the 1980's he was a top box office draw with I'm Getting a Yacht (1981), Count Tacchia (1982) and Sing Sing (1983). After directing numerous successes returned to the mystery genre, this time in Milan, with ! Giorni del Commissario Ambrosio (1988). His last film was Night Club (1989).

FILMOGRAFIA

La peccatrice dell'isola (1952), Suprema confessione (1956), I ragazzi dei Parioli (1959), Totñ, Peppino e la dolce vita (1961), Romolo e Remo (1961), Maciste contro il vampiro (1961), I due marescialli (1961), Lo smemorato di Collegno (1962), Il figlio di Spartacus (1963), Django! (1966), Navajo Joe (1966), Il mercenario (1968), Il grande silenzio (1968), Gli specialisti (1969), Il bestione (1974), Di che segno sei? (1975), Ecco noi per esempio (1978), Pari e dispari (1978), La mazzetta (1978), Giallo napoletano (1979), Mi faccio la barca (1981), Il conte Tacchia (1982), Sing Sing (1983), A tu per tu (1984), Roba da ricchi (1987), Rimini Rimini (1987), I giorni del commissario Ambrosio (1988), Night Club (1989).

Cast

& Credits

Director and plot: Sergio Corbucci.
Screenplay: Vittoriano Petrilli, Mario Amendola, Bruno e Sergio Corbucci.
Director of photography: Silvano Ippoliti.
Music: Ennio Morricone.
Art director: Riccardo Domenici.
Costume designer: Enrico Job.
Editor: Amedeo Salfa.
Sound: Bruno Zanoli.
Cast and characters: Jean-Louis Trintignant (Gordon, detto Silenzio), Klaus Kinski (Tigrero), Frank Wolff (Gedeon Corbett), Luigi Pistilli (Henry Podik), Carlo D'Angelo (il governatore), Marisa Merlini (RÈgine).
Producer: Giovanni Giurgola.
Production company: Adelphia Cin.ca/Les Films Corona.
Italian distribution: Filmmusem, St Jakobs-Platz 1, 80331 Munchen, Germany, tel. +49-89-23322348, fax +49-89-23323931, e-mail filmmuseum@compuserve.com.
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