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Wind from the East ( French: Le Vent d'est) is a 1970 film by the Dziga Vertov Group, a radical filmmaking cooperative that, at its core, included Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin.
Aug 19, 1970 · Wind from the East: Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Gérard Martin. With Gian Maria Volontè, Anne Wiazemsky, Cristiana Tullio-Altan, Allen Midgette. A filmic essay on class struggle which draws on images from westerns but has no plot and is both an experiment in making a revolutionary film and an interrogation of how ...
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Feb 14, 2023 · WIND FROM THE EAST: a loosely conceived “leftist western” that moves through a series of practical and analytical passages (“an organization of shots,” Godard called it) into a finale based around the process of manufacturing homemade weapons.
An east wind is a wind that originates in the east and blows in a westward direction. This wind is referenced as symbolism in culture, mythology, poetry, and literature.
Starting with the idea of making a left-wing spaghetti western in Italy, Jean-Luc Godard wrote a story about the kidnapping of an executive by strikers. This situation moves through a series of practical and analytical passages into a finale based around the process of manufacturing weapons.
"Wind From the East" ("Le Vent D'Est", "Vento do Leste") is a very deep and highly political discussion about communism, capitalism, art, revolution, intellectualism, Maoism, USSR, tradition, paradigms, poetry...
Nov 14, 2017 · Recounting the cultural and political odyssey of French students and intellectuals in the 1960s, The Wind from the East illustrates how the Maoist phenomenon unexpectedly sparked a democratic political sea change in France.
