“Because wherever he goes, the silence of death follows”

On an unforgiving, snow-swept, frontier a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters, led by the vicious ‘Loco’, preys on a band of persecuted outlaws who have taken to the hills. As the price on each head is collected one-by-one, only a mute gunslinger named ‘Silence’ stands between the innocent refugees and the greed and corruption that the bounty hunters represent. But in this harsh, brutal world, the lines between right and wrong aren’t always clear, and good doesn’t always triumph.

Featuring one of Ennio Morricone’s most haunting and melancholic soundtracks, director Sergio Corbucci (Django,Navajo Joe) was in a dark place, and he poured his cynicism at the world around him into this groundbreaking film. Starring two icons of cinema, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Klaus Kinski,The Great Silence is a classic anti-western that echoes the political paranoia of Europe of the time, as the revolutions of the 60s became bathed in bloodshed.

The Great Silence will be introduced by Des O’Rawe, reader in Film Studies at Queen’s University Belfast.

The Lonesome Dove Cinema Club is dedicated to the screening of the finest westerns and also to building a community of western lovers in Belfast. The Club screens every two months.