The Wind Is Whistling Under Their Feet

1976, 1h 30min -

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. Show more

"The Wind Is Whistling Under Their Feet" — movie produced in Hungary and released in 1976. It has a good rating on IMDb: 6.9 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 1h 30min. "The Wind Is Whistling Under Their Feet" is currently available to stream on Cultpix. Click on a playlink to watch it now!