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The Great Silence

4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 702 ratings
IMDb7.7/10.0

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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 independent and foreign films based in New York City. We have released more than 250 feature films and dozens of shorts culled from prestigious film festivals worldwide, including the Oscar-nominated films. Film Movement’s theatrical releases include American independent films, documentaries, and foreign art house titles. Our catalog includes titles by directors such as Hirokazu Kore-eda, Maren Ade, Jessica Hausner, Andrei Konchalovsky, Andrzej Wajda, Diane Kurys, Ciro Guerra and Melanie Laurent.

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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, honorless west is widely considered to be among the very best and most influential Euro-Westerns ever made.

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I'm not generally one for nostalgia, but I do regret the loss of a certain kind of craziness that used to flourish in movies the kind that is on rich and ripe display in The Great Silence, a 1968 Italian western by Sergio Corbucci that is only now receiving a proper theatrical release in this country. There is something about the film's brazen mixing of incompatible elements that defies categorization, imitation or even sober critical assessment. It's anarchic and rigorous, sophisticated and goofy, heartfelt and cynical. The score, by Ennio Morricone, is as mellow as wine. The action is raw, nasty and blood-soaked. The story is preposterous, the politics sincere... The mood is sometimes jaunty, but The Great Silence is no joke, and the fatalism of its ending serves as an implicit critique of the sentimental optimism of many Hollywood westerns. Power speaks louder than silence. --A.O. Scott, The New York Times

Packs a bleak, bloody punch...[and] goes out with a devastating bang. - Simon Abrams, The Village Voice

Brutal, bleakly beautiful spaghetti Western filmed on stark locations in the Dolomites, with one of the most uncompromising and unforgettable finales ever filmed. --Leonard Maltin

Sensationally grim...be prepared for a holy bludgeoning. - David Edelstein, New York Magazine

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

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  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 5.92 ounces
  • Audio Description: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Sergio Corbucci
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Widescreen, Subtitled
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 45 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ June 5, 2018
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Klaus Kinski, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Vonetta McGee, Frank Wolff, Luigi Pistilli
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Film Movement
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07BZC5KDP
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 702 ratings

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Ron Hof72
5.0 out of 5 stars Better than Django
Reviewed in the Netherlands on January 4, 2023
Sergio
5.0 out of 5 stars Il grande silenzio (edizione USA)
Reviewed in Italy on March 20, 2021
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Sergio
5.0 out of 5 stars Il grande silenzio (edizione USA)
Reviewed in Italy on March 20, 2021
Il film non ha bisogno di presentazioni...è uno dei migliori spaghetti-Western in assoluto, imperdibile per gli appassionati del genere!!
Quello che invece vorrei sottolineare è l'ottimo riversamento video di questa edizione, uscita per il 50° anniversario della pellicola, superiore alla vecchia versione blu-ray tedesca della Alive ed inoltre rispetto a quest'ultima i titoli di testa sono quelli originali italiani (cosa che apprezzo sempre molto nelle edizioni straniere), mentre sul lato Audio siamo più o meno lì in entrambi i casi abbiamo un 2.0 lossless!
Presenti negli extra diversi documentari sul film in questione, su Corbucci e il western all'italiana in generale ed inoltre all'interno troviamo anche un libretto di descrizione della pellicola purtroppo per noi però solo in inglese, ma comunque gradevole da sfogliare se non altro per la presenza di diverse immagini del film!
Insomma se amate quest'opera (e se siete appassionati del genere non può essere altrimenti) questa è la migliore versione su disco presente attualmente in commercio, costa più delle altre ma ne vale sicuramente la pena!
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The Man With No Name
5.0 out of 5 stars THE GREAT SILENCE. GREAT BLU-RAY.
Reviewed in Canada on August 1, 2018
M. Peters
5.0 out of 5 stars grandioser Kult-Western
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 17, 2024