It's based loosely on the excesses of bounty hunters in the late west, who massacred an outlaw group in Utah that seemed to be Mormons hiding until amnesty was granted.
Klaus Kinski plays a sadistic bounty hunter named Loco and Trintignant a righteous but mute vigilante called Silence - after he's been in town and the shooting stops, that's what you get.
We're denied the virtual cinematic pleasure of a duel between them, and Silence and his girlfriend both die defending the outlaws being held by Loco in the saloon.
The Dolomites are astonishingly steep and deeply snow-covered, and their looming white silence is breath-taking and compelling.
A shocking and quite good film.
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