MICHAEL CIMINO'S HEAVEN'S GATE (THE CRITERION COLLECTION)

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• Release Year: 1980
• Genre: Drama; Romance; Western
• Plot: A breathtaking depiction of the promise and perils of America's western expansion, Heaven's Gate, directed by Michael Cimino, is among Hollywood's most ambitious and unorthodox epics. Kris Kristofferson brings his weathered sensuality to the role of a Harvard graduate who relocates to Wyoming as a federal marshal; there, he learns of a government-sanctioned plot by cattle barons to kill the area's European settlers for their land. The resulting battle is based on the bloody real-life Johnson County War of 1892. Also starring Isabelle Huppert and Christopher Walken, Heaven's Gate is a savage and ravishingly shot take on western movie lore. This release presents the full director's cut, letting viewers today see Cimino's potent original vision.
• Cast: Kris Kristofferson; Christopher Walken; John Hurt; Sam Waterston; Brad Dourif; Isabelle Huppert; Joseph Cotten; Jeff Bridges; Ronnie Hawkins; Paul Koslo; Geoffrey Lewis; Richard Masur; Rosie Vela; Mary Catherine Wright; Nicholas Woodeson; Stefan Shcherby; Waldemar Kalinowski; Terry O'Quinn; Jack Conley; Margaret Benczak; Jim Knobeloch; Erika Petersen; Robin Bartlett; Tom Noonan; Marat Yusim; Aivars Smits; Gordana Rashovich; Jarlath Conroy; Allen Keller; Caroline Kava; Mady Kaplan; Anna Thomson; Patricia Hodges; Mickey Rourke; Kevin McClarnon; Kai Wulff; Steven Majstorovic; Gabriel Walsh; Norton Buffalo; Jack Blessing; Jerry Sullivan; Jerry McGee; Cleve Dupin; Stephen Bruton; Sean Hopper; David Mansfield; T Bone Burnett; David S. Cass Sr.; Paul D'Amato; Peter Osusky; Ivan Kormanik; Michael Christensen; Anatoli Davydov; Nina Gaidarova; Wally McCleskey; Gary Vezane; H.P. Evetts; Bruce Morgan; Bobby Faber; Judi Trott; Mark Chapman; Steve Holbrook; Sam Peckinpah; Loyd Catlett; Willem Dafoe; Juli Erickson; Les Gapay; Ian Hislop; Al Nazario Hunter; Lincoln Hurst; David Lewis; Norbert Weisser; Eric Wood; Michael Cimino
• Director: Michael Cimino
• Runtime: 3:36
• Company: United Artists, Partisan Productions
• Media Format: Movie