UW Cinematheque - Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair
The Great Silence | France, Italy | 1968 | DCP | 105 min. | Italian with English subtitles Director: Sergio Corbucci
Event Details
Date
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Time
7 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignat, Klaus Kinski, Vonetta McGee
The Great Silence is one of the finest of all Euro Westerns. For this violent, mythic, and nihilistic tale, veteran director Sergio Corbucci (Django, Navajo Joe) wisely eschewed the typical sun-baked locations of Spain’s Almeria region in favor of the snow-covered Dolomite mountains. Corbucci achieves an appropriately icy mood reinforced by the haunting Ennio Morricone score.
The Great Silence is one of the finest of all Euro Westerns. For this violent, mythic, and nihilistic tale, veteran director Sergio Corbucci (Django, Navajo Joe) wisely eschewed the typical sun-baked locations of Spain’s Almeria region in favor of the snow-covered Dolomite mountains. Corbucci achieves an appropriately icy mood reinforced by the haunting Ennio Morricone score.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please email jehealy@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Thursday, June 11, 2026, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.