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Talpuk alatt fütyül a szél (1976)
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.
Updated May 25 2020
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Cast
Đoko Rosić
Farkos Csapó Gyurka
Reviczky Gábor
Babák Ferkó
Bujtor István
Mérges Balázs
Irén Bordán
Parti Bözsi
Vladam Holec
Jeles Matyi
Crew
Elemér Ragályi
Director of Photography
Éva Kármentõ
Editor
Zsuzsa Vicze
Costume Design
Sebő Ferenc
Original Music Composer
Szomjas György
Director
Szomjas György
Writer
Péter Zimre
Writer
János Bozsogi
Assistant Director
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