Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff
A mute gunslinger faces off against a gang of bounty hunters in the great blizzard of 1899, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds.
DVD Release Date: January 27, 2004
Stats: 246 reviews
Two gunslingers, Silenzio and Loco, meet in Utah in 1899's blizzard, where the snowy landscapes will be inevitably splattered with blood.
A bleak western with some atypical patterns, the presence of two great european actors, and a powerful conclusion.
This has to be the most downbeat and depressing western I have ever seen. Corbucci's other decent spaghetti western, "Django", was set in a sea of mud; "The Big Silence" is also strikingly set, against a backdrop of heavy snow drifts. If you're looking for a happy ending, don't b...( read more)
First of all, shame on me for writting a review for this until now. Second, fuck, what can you say about a film like this? Quite few films have dared to do what this little gem did. A bleak no-heroes story that leaves western myths in the floor and kicks the crap out of them, in ...( read more)
Ending really surprising. outlaw outsiders reminded me of zombies.
An incredibly well-done spaghetti western. Completely dismal and depressing although it's absolutely beautiful. It takes a little while to get off the ground, but once it gets going it's totally worthwhile. This has easily got to be one of the darkest endings I've ever seen in a ...( read more)
1st time Ive ever watched a Western where the good guy didnt win in the end
Never saw a Spaghetti western that was so brutal and bleak, especially the setting in which it was filmed in the snow and mud. The only film I saw in which the hero's killed off and bad guys won at the end.
The Great Silence aka : Il grande silenzio Made in 1968 A Spaghetti Western Directed by Sergio Corbucci . Thus is the second movie I have watch made by Corbucci, first being Companeros. Both are excellent movies for a Saturday Night. In the Great Silence we have Jean-Louis Trint...( read more)
Possibly the best spaghetti western outside of the Leone bunch. Sergio Corbucci injects this film full of dread and unpredictable resolutions. The setting is so unique to the spaghetti western climate. It all takes place in a blizzard ravaged mountain village. The snow cover ter...( read more)
Very strange movie. While I was watching it I wondered why I'd never heard of it--if you are a fan of spagetti westerns parts of it are as good as the genre gets, but once I saw the ending I knew why I never heard of it.
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