https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/709207ae-1552-4ab0-bbbb-cba7d87f8d40 'Le Vent d'est' / 'The East Wind' France, 1970, Groupe Dziga Vertov Language Audio: French, Subtitles: English "A film crew is shooting a kind of western: a northern officer (Gian Maria Volonté) leads a Red Indian prisoner through the wilderness, accompanied by a small group of men and women in period costumes, among whom a journalist serves as an intermediary between the captive and the officer; the film crew filming them is sometimes seen. The characters in the film also make speeches about Marxism . In the soundtrack, sometimes without a direct link to the images and sometimes on the contrary by directly commenting on them, characters speak, making reference in particular to Lenin and Maoist China, of several consecutive subjects: the strike, the union delegate, active minorities, the general assembly, the active strike, the police state, then the means of fighting against capitalism. They question the way of making militant cinema and evoke Dziga Vertov; we thus hear debates of the film crew gathered in the form of a general assembly. The discourse opposes the capitalists but also the "revisionists", to whom are assimilated the union delegates who "lie" and in fact serve capitalist interests. At the end the captives take control of the group and mime with rifles the execution of the soldier and the intermediary. Indications are also given on the use of violence." -https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Vent_d%27est (machine translation) "The Dziga Vertov Group is a film collective founded in 1968 by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin to produce militant films of a Maoist orientation. The collective's name refers to the Soviet director Dziga Vertov (1896-1954), his cine-oeil (Kino-Glaz or Ciné-Eye) and his cinéma-vérité, but it is also influenced by the ideas of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956). All the films are signed collectively. ... The films produced by the group were described by critics of the time as abstract, intellectualist, formally ugly and unbearably heavy compared to Godard's previous films. For almost two decades, they literally disappeared from biographies of the Franco-Swiss director until they were rediscovered, thanks to the distance of time (and the restoration of prints); today, critics see in them a continuous aesthetic vertigo, a rigorous formal experimentation and an investigation into the language of cinema. ... The collective acronym appears rather in conferences, interviews and written texts. Its slogan is the intention 'not to make political films, but to make films politically', which is obviously the culmination of a Godardian evolution going from "Brechtian" films ('Les Carabiniers') to investigative films ('Two or Three Things I Know About Her' or 'Masculin Féminin') and up to political didactic films ('La Chinoise' and 'Le Gai Savoir'). Concretely, its slogan means that if a film is not 'politically thought out' from its production, it cannot play an effective political role; at most, it can have a consoling function, for example galvanizing activists or shocking democratic spectators with police brutality." -https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupe_Dziga_Vertov (machine translation) Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:42:01 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/709207ae-1552-4ab0-bbbb-cba7d87f8d40 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.