'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History Lessons and Too Early, Too Late as well. It, too, has two parts—a twentieth-century text and a text regarding the myths of antiquity, each set in the appropriate landscape. Pavese's The Moon and the Bonfires looks back on the violent deaths of Italian anti-Fascist resistance fighters; Dialogues with Leucò is a series of dialogues between heroes and gods, connecting myth and history and returning to an ambiguous stage in the creation of distinctions, such as that between animal and human, which are fundamental to grammar and language itself. Such a juxtaposition of political engagement with profoundly contemplative issues such as myth, nature, and meaning points to the characters of Empedocles and Antigone in the Hölderlin films.' (From "Landscapes of resistance. The German Films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub" by Barton Byg)
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Olimpia Carlisi as Nefele
Guido Lombardi as Issione
Gino Felici as Hippolocos
Lori Pelosini as Sarpedonte
Walter Pardini as Edipo
Ennio Lauricella as Tiresias
Andrea Bacci as 1st Hunter
Loris Cavallini as 2nd Hunter
Francesco Ragusa as Litierse
Fiorangelo Pucci as Hercules
Dolando Bernardini as The Father
Andrea Filippi as The Son
Mauro Monni as The Bastard
Carmelo Lacorte as Nuto
Mario di Mattia as Cinto
Luigi Giordanello as Valino
Paolo Cinanni as Knight
Gianni Toti as Priest
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