Days of Heaven

Director: Terrence Malick, Harold Schneider Terrence Malick

Overview

Offering an unparalleled look at pre-WW I America and featuring breathtaking, Oscar-winning cinematography from Nestor Alemendros, this sweeping drama is told from the viewpoint of a young girl who travels across the country with her older brother and her "sister"--at least that's what her brother tells everyone. Eventually the trio find a home on the land of a prominent wheat farmer. They work hard for the farmer and life is finally improving until the older sister falls in love with the farmer.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/15/2022
UPC:	0810072547484
Original Release:	1978
Rating:	PG
Source:	Paramount
Language:	English
Time:	1:33:00
Sales rank:	4,245

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Richard Gere	Bill
Brooke Adams	Abby
Sam Shepard	The Farmer
Linda Manz	Linda
Robert J. Wilke	Farm Foreman,Farm Foreman
Stuart Margolin	Mill Foreman
Tim Scott	Harvest Hand,Harvest Hand
Gene Bell	Dancer
Jackie Shultis	Linda's Friend
Doug Kershaw	Fiddler,Composer
Richard Libertini	Vaudeville Leader
Frenchie Lemond	Vaudeville Wrestler
Sahbra Markus	Vaudeville Dancer
Muriel Jolliffe	Headmistress
John Wilkinson	Preacher,Preacher
King Cole	Farm Worker
Bob Wilson	Accountant
Ennio Morricone	Composer
Leo Kottke	Composer

Technical Credits

Terrence Malick

Terrence Malick	Director,Screenwriter
Jacob Brackman	Executive Producer
Barry G. Thomas	Sound Mixer,Special Effects
Mel Merrells	Special Effects
Harold Schneider	Producer,Producer,Director
Dianne Crittenden	Casting
Robert Glass Jr.	Sound/Sound Designer
Barry Thomas	Sound Mixer
George Ronconi	Sound Mixer
John Reitz	Sound/Sound Designer
Robert Thirlwell	Sound/Sound Designer
John Wilkinson	Sound/Sound Designer
Peter Gregory	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Terrence Malick's follow-up to his acclaimed 1973 debut Badlands confirmed his reputation as a visual poet and narrative iconoclast. Inspired by silent master F.W. Murnau's City Girl (1930), and shot by Nestor Almendros and Haskell Wexler in natural light primarily during the "magic hour" before sunset, Malick's spectacular imagery took the place of conventional exposition and excessive dialogue. The tragic love triangle between a migrant worker couple and a wealthy landowner must be pieced together through brief, cryptic incidents and child observer Linda's jaded, distant voice-over; the expressive sequences of nature's radiance and brutality allude to the emotions brewing beneath the adults' cool surfaces. Ennio Morricone's delicate, dreamy score further complemented the narrative restraint and sensory beauty. Hailed as a lushly visual masterpiece, even by viewers less taken with Malick's elliptical story-telling, Days of Heaven won a Cannes Film Festival prize and an Oscar for its cinematography, and received Oscar nominations for Score, Costumes, and Sound. Malick himself won Best Director awards from Cannes and the New York Film Critics' Circle. Despite its critical success, Days of Heaven failed to find an audience in 1978; Malick took a 20-year sabbatical from directing before making The Thin Red Line (1998).