Great Silence Blu-ray
'The Great Silence' AKA 'Il Grande Silenzio' Director: Sergio Corbucci (1968) Eureka Masters of Cinema Blu-ray | 2K restoration | Italian or English w/ optional English subtitles
On an unforgiving, snow-swept frontier, a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters, led by the vicious Loco prey on a band of persecuted outlaws who have taken to the hills. Only a mute gunslinger named Silence stands between the innocent refugees and the corrupt killers. Starring Klaus Kinski and Jean-Louis Trintignant.
Featuring superb photography and a haunting score from maestro Ennio Morricone, director Sergio Corbucci’s bleak, brilliant and violent vision of an immoral, honour-less West, is widely considered to be among the best and most influential Westerns ever made.
Special features include:
- Audio commentary by author Howard Hughes and filmmaker Richard Knew
- Audio commentary by filmmaker Mike Siegel
- Audio commentary by director and Spaghetti Western aficionado Alex Cox, recorded live at the Hollywood Theatre, Portland in 2021
- New interview with Austin Fisher, author of Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western: Politics, Violence and Popular Italian Cinema
- Cox on Corbucci – filmmaker Alex Cox talks about Sergio Corbucci [15 mins]
- Western, Italian Style – 1968 documentary [38 mins]
- Two Alternate Endings
- Reversible sleeve with original and newly commisioned artwork
- 36-page collector’s booklet featuring two essays by author Howard Hughes; one covering the background to the making of The Great Silence, and an extensive piece on the westerns of Klaus Kinski
