From the Clouds to the Resistance


From the Clouds to the Resistance is a 1979 Italian drama film directed by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub. It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.

Cast

Philosophical conversations between mythological characters including Nephele/The Cloud and Issione/Ixion, Ippòloco/Hippolochus and Sarpedonte/Sarpedon, Edipo/Oedipus and Tiresias, two hunters discussing reincarnation of humans punished by the gods, Litierse/Lityerses and Eracle/Heracles, and a father and son who are burning a fire as an annual sacrifice to the land.
Taken from Cesare Pavese's novel, La Luna e i Falò
After WWII, the emigrant 'The Bastard' comes back to his village in the Langhe to find that everyone he knew has died and the war has deeply changed relationships between people.