Wind from the East (1970)
"Le vent d'est" (original title)

Director:

Groupe Dziga Vertov

Writers:

Sergio Bazzini, Daniel Cohn-Bendit,

Stars:

Gian Maria Volonté, Anne Wiazemsky, Cristiana Tullio-Altan

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Gian Maria Volonté	...	Le ranger nordiste
Anne Wiazemsky	...	La révolutionnaire
Cristiana Tullio-Altan	...	La jeune bourgeoise
Allen Midgette	...	L'Indien
José Valéra	...	La guide
Paolo Pozzesi	...	Délégué révisionniste
Götz George	...	Soldat
Glauber Rocha
Fabio Garriba
Vincenzo Porcelli
Milvia Deanna Frosini
Mario Jannilli
Federico Boido	...	(as Ryck Boyd)
Aldo Bixio
Daniel Cohn-Bendit

Storyline

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

Italy France West Germany

Language:

French

Release Date:

4 February 1971 (Italy)

Also Known As:

Wind from the East

Company Credits

Production Co:

Polifilm, Anouchka Films, CCC Filmkunst

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Did You Know?

Connections

Featured in Histoire(s) du cinéma: Les signes parmi nous (1998)

User Reviews

A truly wretched, nausea-inducing waste of film

You know those "worst films of all time" lists? This one tops my list!

How to describe it? The film is a long pointless diatribe against the West and an endorsement of French Communism. The film supposedly illustrates crimes against society committed by the west but the acting (and costuming) looked like a Haight Ashbury Summer'o'Love stock production.

The film is very grainy. Apparently Godard shot it on 8mm film. His disciples then blew it up to 35mm for its extremely limited arthouse release. The copy I suffered through had been shrunk back to 16mm (the format for rental films).

Oh, and the narration? Godard's diatribe is delivered by a somewhat bored Frenchman. That was bad enough but Godard's disciples had added an English-speaking female narrator to make the politics accessible to western audiences. The problem was, Godard refused to let them delete the French voicetrack! So.... for two wretched hours, the French and English narrations go on SIMULTANEOUSLY! Add to this the lousy acting, minimal production, and grainy film and you have EXCEDERIN HEADACHE #1.