The Great Silence
The Great Silence

Film Movement

The Great Silence

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Founded in 2002 as one of the first-ever subscription film services with its DVD-of-the-Month Film Club, Film Movement is now a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. In 2015, Film Movement launched the reissue label Film Movement Classics featuring new restorations released theatrically as well as on home video, with an emphasis on films by auteur directors such as Eric Rohmer, Peter Greenaway and Takeshi Kitano.

On an unforgiving, snow-swept frontier, a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters, led by the vicious Loco (Klaus Kinski) prey on a band of persecuted outlaws who have taken to the hills. Only a mute gunslinger named Silence (Jean-Louis Trintignant) stands between the innocent refugees and the corrupt bounty hunters. But, in this harsh, brutal world, the lines between right and wrong are not always clear, and good does not 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, honorless West is widely considered to be among the best and most influential Westerns ever made.

directed by: Sergio Corbucci
starring: Klaus Kinski, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Vonetta McGee, Frank Wolff, Luigi Pistilli, Mario Brega
1968 / 105 min / 1.85:1 / Italian, English Stereo

Additional info:

  • Region Free Blu-ray
  • Cox on Corbucci: filmmaker and author Alex Cox (Repo Man) surveys Sergio Corbucci's career and how The Great Silence fits within the maestro's oeuvre
  • Western, Italian Style: 1968 documentary on Italian westerns includes prime behind-the-scenes footage of The Great Silence
  • Two alternate endings restored in 2K and with sound, including the option to play one of the alternate endings with Alex Cox's commentary; One of the alternate endings has never been seen before and another has never been released with sound
  • The Great Silence original theatrical trailer restored in 2K
  • The Great Silence 2018 theatrical trailer
  • Italian and English language versions
  • Ending the Silence: a new essay about The Great Silence by film critic Simon Abrams
  • English subtitles