Wind from the East
Aug 19 1970
•2h 40m
•Drama, Western
A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an attack on all cinematic conventions to date and a debate on the nature and possibility of revolutionary cinema.
Cast
See all
Gian Maria Volonté
Le Ranger Nordiste (uncredited)
Anne Wiazemsky
La Révolutionnaire (uncredited)
Cristiana Tullio-Altan
La Jeune Bourgeoise (uncredited)
Allen Midgette
L'Indien (uncredited)
Recommendations
See all
Christiane F.
This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the 'Sound', a new disco with most modern equipment. Although she's legally too young, she asks a friend to take her. There she meets Detlef, who's in a clique where everybody's on drugs. Step by step she gets drawn deeper into the scene.
Warning Shadows
During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the marriage by giving all the guests a vision what might happen tonight if the baron stays jealous and the suitors do not reduce their advances towards his beautiful wife. Or was it a vision?
Struggle in Italy
The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology.
GoodFellas
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.