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Writers:
Sergio Bazzini (writer)
Daniel Cohn-Bendit (writer)
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Release Date:
1970 (West Germany) more
Genre:
Drama
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A truly wretched, nausea-inducing waste of film more (4 total)

Cast

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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
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
East Wind
Ostwind (West Germany)
Vento dell'est (Italy)
Wind from the East
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Runtime:
USA:100 min
Language:
French
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono
Company:
Polifilm more

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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Godard in America (1970) more

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3 out of 29 people found the following comment useful.
A truly wretched, nausea-inducing waste of film, 9 September 2001
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Author: davidemartin (davidemartin@cs.com) from Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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.

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