From the Clouds to the Resistance

1979 film

From the Clouds to the Resistance

Directed by|

* Jean-Marie Straub
Danièle Huillet

Written by| Cesare Pavese
Danièle Huillet
Jean-Marie Straub
Produced by| Danièle Huillet
Jean-Marie Straub
Starring| Olimpia Carlisi
Cinematography| Saverio Diamante
Giovanni Canfarelli Modica

Release date

* 7 November 1979 (1979-11-07)

Running time

| 104 minutes
Country| Italy
Language| Italian

From the Clouds to the Resistance (Italian: Dalla nube alla resistenza, literally From the Cloud to the Resistance) is a 1979 Italian drama film directed by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub.[1] It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.[2]

## Cast

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* Olimpia Carlisi \- The Cloud
* Guido Lombardi \- Issione
* Gino Felici \- Ippoloco
* Lori Pelosini \- Sarpedonte
* Walter Pardini \- Edipo
* Ennio Lauricella \- Tiresia
* Andrea Bacci \- 1st hunter
* Loris Cavallini \- 2nd hunter
* Francesco Ragusa - Litierse
* Fiorangelo Pucci \- Eracle
* Dolando Bernardini \- Father
* Andrea Filippi \- Son
* Mauro Monni \- The Bastard
* Carmelo Lacorte \- Nuto
* Mario di Mattia \- Cinto

## Plot

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* Part One: Six stories taken from Cesare Pavese's Dialoghi con Leuco.

Philosophical conversations between mythological characters including Nephele/The Cloud (Olimpia Carlisi) and Issione/Ixion (Guido Lombardi), Ippòloco/Hippolochus (Gino Felici) and Sarpedonte/Sarpedon (Lori Pelosini), Edipo/Oedipus (Walter Pardini) and Tiresias (Ennio Lauricella), two hunters (Andrea Bacci and Lori Cavallini) discussing reincarnation of humans punished by the gods, Litierse/Lityerses and Eracle/Heracles (Francesco Ragusa and Fiorangelo Pucci), and a father and son (Dolando Bernardini and Andrea Filippi) who are burning a fire as an annual sacrifice to the land.

* Part Two:

Taken from Cesare Pavese's novel, La Luna e i Falò

After WWII, the emigrant 'The Bastard' (Mauro Monni) comes back to his village in the Langhe (northern Italy) to find that everyone he knew has died and the war has deeply changed relationships between people.

## References

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1. ^ "New York Times: From the Clouds to the Resistance". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2011. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2008.
2. ^ "Festival de Cannes: From the Clouds to the Resistance". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 25 May 2009.

## External links

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* From the Clouds to the Resistance at IMDb

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Films directed by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

* Not Reconciled
* The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
* History Lessons
* Moses und Aron
* From the Clouds to the Resistance
* En rachâchant
* Too Early/Too Late
* Klassenverhältnisse
* The Death of Empedocles
* Black Sin
* Sicilia!
* These Encounters of Theirs
* Dialogue of Shadows

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