From the Clouds to the Resistance

From the Clouds to the Resistance

104 mins | Drama | Nov. 7, 1979

'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History Lessons and Too Early, Too Late as well. It, too, has two parts—a twentieth-century text and a text regarding the myths of antiquity, each set in the appropriate landscape. Pavese's The Moon and the Bonfires looks back on the violent deaths of Italian anti-Fascist resistance fighters; Dialogues with Leucò is a series of dialogues between heroes and gods, connecting myth and history and returning to an ambiguous stage in the creation of distinctions, such as that between animal and human, which are fundamental to grammar and language itself. Such a juxtaposition of political engagement with profoundly contemplative issues such as myth, nature, and meaning points to the characters of Empedocles and Antigone in the Hölderlin films.' (From "Landscapes of resistance. The German Films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub" by Barton Byg)

From the Clouds to the Resistance

104 mins | Drama | Nov. 7, 1979

From the Clouds to the Resistance
'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History Lessons and Too Early, Too Late as well. It, too, has two parts—a twentieth-century text and a text regarding the myths of antiquity, each set in the appropriate landscape. Pavese's The Moon and the Bonfires looks back on the violent deaths of Italian anti-Fascist resistance fighters; Dialogues with Leucò is a series of dialogues between heroes and gods, connecting myth and history and returning to an ambiguous stage in the creation of distinctions, such as that between animal and human, which are fundamental to grammar and language itself. Such a juxtaposition of political engagement with profoundly contemplative issues such as myth, nature, and meaning points to the characters of Empedocles and Antigone in the Hölderlin films.' (From "Landscapes of resistance. The German Films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub" by Barton Byg)
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers RAI, Janus Film und Fernsehen, Artificial Eye, Ina, Straub-Huillet
Original title Dalla nube alla resistenza
Directors Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Writers Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Cesare Pavese

Cast

Olimpia Carlisi

as Nefele

Guido Lombardi

as Issione

Gino Felici

as Hippolocos

Lori Pelosini

as Sarpedonte

Walter Pardini

as Edipo

Ennio Lauricella

as Tiresias

Andrea Bacci

as 1st Hunter

Loris Cavallini

as 2nd Hunter

Francesco Ragusa

as Litierse

Fiorangelo Pucci

as Hercules

Dolando Bernardini

as The Father

Andrea Filippi

as The Son

Mauro Monni

as The Bastard

Carmelo Lacorte

as Nuto

Mario di Mattia

as Cinto

Luigi Giordanello

as Valino

Paolo Cinanni

as Knight

Gianni Toti

as Priest