The Wind Is Whistling Under Their Feet

The Wind Is Whistling Under Their Feet (1976)


  • Genre: Drama, Western
  • Release Date: 1976-08-26
  • User Rating: 6.2/10 from 5 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 30min
  • Language: Magyar
  • Production Company: Mafilm
  • Production Country: Hungary
  • Director:
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6.9

Summary

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.

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  • Camera Elemér Ragályi Director of Photography
    Editing Éva Kármentő Editor
    Costume & Make-Up Zsuzsa Vicze Costume Design
    Sound Sebő Ferenc Original Music Composer
    Directing György Szomjas Director
    Writing György Szomjas Writer
    Writing Péter Zimre Writer
    Directing János Bozsogi Assistant Director
    Art Lajos Gulyás Production Design
    Production Lajos Gulyás Production Manager
    Costume & Make-Up Attila Ungvári Makeup Artist
    Art János Krajcsovics Set Decoration