The Deer Hunter
Voyage au bout de l'enfer
Michael Cimino
Three steel workers from Pennsylvania, who go hunting in their spare time, are sent to fight in Vietnam. Before leaving, Steven marries Angela, and Nick makes Linda promise she will wait for him. After the war it is almost impossible to get back to ordinary life...
With : Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, George Dzundza
Screenplay : Deric Washburn
Image : Vilmos Zsigmond
Decors : Dick Goddard, Alan Hicks
Sound : James J. Klinger, Darin Knight, Richard Portman, Aaron Rochin
Editing : Peter Zinner
Music : Stanley Myers
Screenplay : Deric Washburn
Image : Vilmos Zsigmond
Decors : Dick Goddard, Alan Hicks
Sound : James J. Klinger, Darin Knight, Richard Portman, Aaron Rochin
Editing : Peter Zinner
Music : Stanley Myers
Production : EMI Films, Universal Pictures
Distribution: Carlotta Films
Distribution: Carlotta Films
"At a time when the conflict in Vietnam was still an open wound in the US, Cimino gives us a bloody opera mingling lyricism with cynicism, where friendship, solidarity and heroism are simple values which drive the main characters" (Gérard Camy). The film focuses on the physical and moral trauma that the war caused and the bad conscience of the soldiers. "A detailed and patient study, the first part is a sort of suspension given to the characters by the director before they are launched into war. The second part, the only part to take place in Vietnam, is quick and violent, like a sudden awareness. Finally, in the last part, Cimino shows the scars of a nation and their external ugliness, that time believes it can erase" (Marine Landrot).