2012 Galway Film Fleadh Programme

Michael Cimino’s bleak anti-western based on events in 1890s Wyoming. Sheriff James Averill attempts to protect immigrant farmers from wealthy cattle interests, and also clashes with a hired gun, Nathan Champion, over the woman they both love, Ella Watson. Both men find themselves questioning their roles in the furious conflict between wealthy landowners and European immigrants attempting to build new lives on the American frontier, which culminates in a brutal pitched battle.

Running Time 143 mins | Colour | 35mm

Producer Joann Carelli

Script Michael Cimino

Cast Isabelle Huppert, Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Brad Dourif, Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston 

Production Partisan Productions

Print Source Park Circus