Ostwind
Wind From the East
A delirious project that could only have been conceived in the wake of 1968, "Ostwind" started life as a collaboration between Godard, anarchist militant Daniel Cohn-Bendit and the actor Gian-Maria Volonté to make a socialist Western, financed by an Italian leftist millionaire. During a fractious shoot, however, Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin wrested control of the production – giving birth to the “Groupe Dziga Vertov” in the process – and used the generic markers of the Western as a pretext for a theoretical essay on revolutionary strategy and the illusory nature of cinematic realism.
Source: goEast Film Festival 2022
Credits
Director of photography
Cast
- Offizier
- Prostituierte
- Mädchen in Rosa
- Pellerose
- Anführer
- Journalist
- Mann am Kreuzweg
- Funktionär
- Indianer
Production company
Alle Credits
Assistant director
Director of photography
Costume design
Audio mixing
Miscellaneous
Cast
- Offizier
- Prostituierte
- Mädchen in Rosa
- Pellerose
- Anführer
- Journalist
- Mann am Kreuzweg
- Funktionär
- Indianer
Production company
in co-production with
Co-Producer
Unit production manager
Original distributor
Shoot
- 16.06.1969 - 16.07.1969: Umgebung von Rom
Zensur (IT): 14.11.1970, v.c. 57199
Uraufführung: 06.05.1970, Cannes, IFF;
Erstaufführung (DE): 05.08.1970, München, Theatiner Filmkunst
Titles
- Originaltitel (DE) Ostwind
- Originaltitel (IT) Vento dell'est
- Originaltitel (FR) Le vent d'est
Versions
Original
Zensur (IT): 14.11.1970, v.c. 57199
Uraufführung: 06.05.1970, Cannes, IFF;
Erstaufführung (DE): 05.08.1970, München, Theatiner Filmkunst