The Wind Blows Under Your Feet

The Wind Blows Under Your Feet

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🎞️ Movie 90 min HU
โ˜… 6.9 /10 1976

György Szomjas’s first feature—made after a decade of short documentaries—is a bold attempt at a goulash western, set on the puszta, or Great Hungarian Plain, in 1837. Mixing Miklós Jancsó imagery and a Sergio Leone narrative, this ballad-like saga opens with image of a lone horseman on the empty plain, riding past a rude gallows. The film concerns the vengeful return of a legendary betyár (outlaw), briefly a hero to the local herdsmen who oppose the state building a canal across their grazing land. Although Szomjas works from ethnographic records and archival material, it is hardly surprising that this violent, primitivist film would be more popular with Hungarian audiences than critics. Replete with young guns, crooked sheriffs, tavern brawlers and hardbitten plug-uglies, this widescreen film is strikingly shot by Elémer Ragályi (cinematographer for most of Gyula Gazdag’s films)—a feast of loamy, autumnal colors.

Cast

Ferenc Bessenyei
Ferenc Bessenyei
Farkos Csapó Gyurka
Djoko Rosic
Djoko Rosic
Farkos Csapó Gyurka
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István Bujtor
Mérges Balázs, csendbiztos
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György Cserhalmi
Jeles Matyi
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Vladan Holec
Jeles Matyi
Irén Bordán
Irén Bordán
Parti Bözsi
Sándor Deák
Sándor Deák
Egy megyei úr
Bertalan Solti
Bertalan Solti
Számadó
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Géza Polgár
Egy megyei úr
๐Ÿ‘ค
József Iványi
Timók András
Ferenc Sebő
Ferenc Sebő
Composer
Elemér Ragályi
Elemér Ragályi
Cinematographer