From the Clouds to the Resistance (, literally From the Cloud to the Resistance) is a 1979 Italian drama film directed by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub. It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.
Cast
Olimpia Carlisi - The Cloud
Guido Lombardi - Issione
Gino Felici - Ippoloco
Lori Pelosini - Sarpedonte
Walter Pardini - Edipo
Ennio Lauricella - Tiresia
Andrea Bacci - 1st hunter
Loris Cavallini - 2nd hunter
Francesco Ragusa - Litierse
Fiorangelo Pucci - Eracle
Dolando Bernardini - Father
Andrea Filippi - Son
Mauro Monni - The Bastard
Carmelo Lacorte - Nuto
Mario di Mattia - Cinto
Plot
Part One: Six stories taken from Cesare Pavese's Dialoghi con Leuco. Philosophical conversations between mythological characters including Nephele/The Cloud (Olimpia Carlisi) and Issione/Ixion (Guido Lombardi), Ippòloco/Hippolochus (Gino Felici) and Sarpedonte/Sarpedon (Lori Pelosini), Edipo/Oedipus (Walter Pardini) and Tiresias (Ennio Lauricella), two hunters (Andrea Bacci and Lori Cavallini) discussing reincarnation of humans punished by the gods, Litierse/Lityerses and Eracle/Heracles (Francesco Ragusa and Fiorangelo Pucci), and a father and son (Dolando Bernardini and Andrea Filippi) who are burning a fire as an annual sacrifice to the land.
Part Two: Taken from Cesare Pavese's novel, La Luna e i Falò
After WWII, the emigrant 'The Bastard' (Mauro Monni) comes back to his village in the Langhe (northern Italy) to find that everyone he knew has died and the war has deeply changed relationships between people.