From the Clouds to the Resistance

Synopsis

'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)

Main Cast

Olimpia Carlisi

Nefele

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Guido Lombardi

Issione

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Gino Felici

Hippolocos

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Lori Pelosini

Sarpedonte

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Walter Pardini

Edipo

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Ennio Lauricella

Tiresias

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Andrea Bacci

1st Hunter

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Loris Cavallini

2nd Hunter

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Novel	Cesare Pavese
	Screenplay	Jean-Marie Straub Danièle Huillet
Directing	Director	Danièle Huillet Jean-Marie Straub
Editing	Editor	Jean-Marie Straub Danièle Huillet
Camera	Director of Photography	Giovanni Canfarelli Modica Saverio Diamante
Sound	Sound Recordist	Georges Vaglio Louis Hochet
	Music	Gustav Leonhardt
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