The Wind Is Whistling Under Their Feet (1976)

ALL 08/26/1976 (hu) Drama, Western 90 Min
  • Release
    08/26/1976
  • Production
    Mafilm
  • Rotten tomato
    66.67%
  • Original title
    Talpuk alatt fütyül a szél
  • Original language
    hu
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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.

  1. György Szomjas

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Producer



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Casts

  1. Djoko Rosic

    Farkos Csapó Gyurka

  2. István Bujtor

    Mérges Balázs

  3. Vladan Holec

    Jeles Matyi

  4. György Cserhalmi

    Jeles Matyi hangja

  5. Irén Bordán

    Parti Bözsi

  6. Gábor Reviczky

    Babák Ferkó

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 6 , Crews : 12

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The Wind Is Whistling Under Their Feet (1976) 90 Min

ALL 08/26/1976 (hu)
Drama, Western
  • Release 08/26/1976
  • Production
    Mafilm
  • Original title Talpuk alatt fütyül a szél
  • hu
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. György Szomjas

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Éva Kármentő

    Editor

  4. Producer