# The Great Silence (1968)

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**Original title**: *Il grande silenzio*
**Runtime**: 106 min
**Genres**: Western, Drama
**Directed by**: Sergio Corbucci
**Written by**: Sergio Corbucci, Bruno Corbucci, Mario Amendola
**Starring**: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff, Luigi Pistilli, Vonetta McGee, Mario Brega

> *His voice was the silence of death!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

High Noon without dialogue. A mute gunslinger takes up with a band of outlaws against a merciless pack of bounty hunters in the snowbound Utah mountains. Klaus Kinski's bounty hunter is among the most loathsome villains in Spaghetti Western history.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, dread, raw

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