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{{short description|1979 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = From the Clouds to the Resistance
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| director       = {{plainlist|
* [[Straub-Huillet|Jean-Marie Straub<br />Danièle Huillet]]
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| producer       = Danièle Huillet<br>Jean-Marie Straub
| writer         = [[Cesare Pavese]]<br>Danièle Huillet<br>Jean-Marie Straub
| starring       = [[Olimpia Carlisi]]
| music          =
| cinematography = Saverio Diamante<br>Giovanni Canfarelli Modica
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| released       = {{film date|1979|11|7|df=yes}}
| runtime        = 104 minutes
| country        = Italy
| language       = Italian
| budget         =
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'''''From the Clouds to the Resistance''''' ({{langx|it|'''Dalla nube alla resistenza'''}}, literally ''From the Cloud to the Resistance'') is a 1979 Italian [[drama film]] directed by [[Danièle Huillet]] and [[Jean-Marie Straub]].<ref name="NY Times">{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/376629/Dalla-nube-alla-resistenza/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520074840/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/376629/Dalla-nube-alla-resistenza/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 May 2011 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |publisher=[[Baseline (database)|Baseline]] & [[All Movie Guide]] |date=2011 |title=New York Times: From the Clouds to the Resistance |accessdate=23 July 2008}}</ref> It competed in the [[Un Certain Regard]] section at the [[1979 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1943/year/1979.html |title=Festival de Cannes: From the Clouds to the Resistance |accessdate=25 May 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref>
==Cast==
* [[Olimpia Carlisi]] - The Cloud
* [[Guido Lombardi (actor)|Guido Lombardi]] - Issione
* [[Gino Felici]] - Ippoloco
* [[Lori Pelosini]] - Sarpedonte
* [[Walter Pardini]] - Edipo
* [[Ennio Lauricella]] - Tiresia
* [[Andrea Bacci (actor)|Andrea Bacci]] - 1st hunter
* [[Loris Cavallini]] - 2nd hunter
* Francesco Ragusa - Litierse
* [[Fiorangelo Pucci]] - Eracle
* [[Dolando Bernardini]] - Father
* [[Andrea Filippi]] - Son
* [[Mauro Monni]] - The Bastard
* [[Carmelo Lacorte]] - Nuto
* [[Mario di Mattia]] - Cinto
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==Plot==
*Part One: Six stories taken from [[Cesare Pavese]]'s [[Dialoghi con Leuco]].
Philosophical conversations between mythological characters including [[Nephele]]/The Cloud ([[Olimpia Carlisi]]) and Issione/[[Ixion]] ([[Guido Lombardi]]), Ippòloco/[[Hippolochus (mythology)|Hippolochus]] ([[Gino Felici]]) and Sarpedonte/[[Sarpedon]] ([[Lori Pelosini]]), Edipo/[[Oedipus]] ([[Walter Pardini]]) and [[Tiresias]] ([[Ennio Lauricella]]), two hunters ([[Andrea Bacci]] and [[Lori Cavallini]]) discussing reincarnation of humans punished by the gods, Litierse/[[Lityerses]] and Eracle/[[Heracles]] (Francesco Ragusa and [[Fiorangelo Pucci]]), and a father and son ([[Dolando Bernardini]] and [[Andrea Filippi]]) who are burning a fire as an annual sacrifice to the land.
*Part Two:
Taken from Cesare Pavese's novel, [[La Luna e i Falò]]
After WWII, the emigrant 'The Bastard' ([[Mauro Monni]]) comes back to his village in the Langhe (northern Italy) to find that everyone he knew has died and the war has deeply changed relationships between people.
==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=0079023|title=From the Clouds to the Resistance}}
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