The Wind Is Whistling Under Their Feet
1976 · 90 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 404 VOTES · DIR. György Szomjas
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 462 lines
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00:00:32 We can dug the canal here for take the water from the moors into the river.
00:01:32 He captured and brought in prison Gyurka Farkas Csapó
00:06:15 Hey!
00:11:29 The outlaws wear large-brimmed hats
00:15:16 It was Ferkó Babák.
00:19:58 I'll brace myself up and say:
00:22:12 All right, Gyurka Farkas Csapó.
00:25:10 Well, he certainly won't.
00:27:09 Gyurka!
00:32:03 You're clever at damaging ditches, aren't you?
00:38:14 As long as I'm here, you're safe.
00:43:23 Stop yelling under my window, you fool.
00:50:32 But when we were driving them, our whips did not touch.
00:53:24 St. Andrew's day is getting close.
00:54:56 That's not so easy.
00:56:53 They protect one another like brothers.
01:00:57 He didn't escape from me.
01:04:02 - Bring me a mirror quickly! - For what, my dear?
01:06:45 Your lives are in my hand.
01:10:16 The district lieutenant is coming to capture you with 22 of his men, Gyurka.
01:13:17 Everybody knows that Gyurka Farkas Csapó killed that lad.
01:15:31 Sir!
01:20:44 Don't you understand, lad?
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