THE GREAT SILENCE

France, Italy | 1968 | DCP | 105 min. | Italian with English subtitles
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignat, Klaus Kinski, Vonetta McGee
The Great Silence is one of the finest of all Euro Westerns. For this violent, mythic, and nihilistic tale, veteran director Sergio Corbucci (Django, Navajo Joe) wisely eschewed the typical sun-baked locations of Spain’s Almeria region in favor of the snow-covered Dolomite mountains. Corbucci achieves an appropriately icy mood reinforced by the haunting Ennio Morricone score. “[Corbucci’s] West was the most violent, surreal and pitiless landscape of any director in the history of the genre” (Quentin Tarantino).