Great Silence

The greatest spaghetti Western ever made.
-- Alex Cox, Director of 'Sid & Nancy' and 'Repo Man'

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The Great Silence

On an unforgiving, snow-swept frontier, a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters, led by the vicious Loco (Klaus Kinski, Nosferatu, For a Few Dollars More) prey on a band of persecuted outlaws who have taken to the hills. As the price on each head is collected one-by-one, only a mute gunslinger named Silence (Jean-Louis Trintignant, The Conformist) stands between the innocent refuges and the greed and corruption that the bounty hunters represent. But, in this harsh, brutal world, the lines between right and wrong aren't always clear and good doesn't always triumph. Featuring superb photography and a haunting score from maestro Ennio Morricone, director Sergio Corbucci's bleak, brilliant and violent vision of an immoral, dishonorable west is widely considered to be among the very best and most influential Euro-Westerns ever made.

"The director at his most artful and daring." - Kyle Anderson, Nerdist News

"Brutal, bleakly beautiful spaghetti Western filmed on stark locations in the Dolomites, with one of the most uncompromising and unforgettable finales ever filmed." - Leonard Marting, Pajiba.com
Not Rated
Genre
Western, Repertory
Runtime
105
Language
Italian, English
Director
Sergio Corbucci
Cast
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff
FEATURED REVIEW
Eric Monder, Film Journal International

'The Great Silence' (1968) has had a cult following but was never released theatrically in the U.S., primarily due to its violent excesses and lack of American star power. But connoisseurs of the subgenre of westerns made in Europe during the mid- and late 1960s should flock to this elegantly brutal ...

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