Movie Club: Sorcerer

Sorcerer

USA | 1977 | 121 min. | William Friedkin

June 4, 2025

SIFF Movie Club

Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain. Introduced by SIFF Marketing Coordinator Quentin Lebeau.

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Wednesday, June 4, 2025

In this Academy Award-nominated cult-favorite film from William Friedkin (Oscar winner for The French Connection) and starring Oscar nominee Roy Scheider (Jaws), several outcasts from various backgrounds and nationalities are thrown together through misfortune and forced to work in an oil-drilling operation in South America. After a fire ignites and burns out of control, four of the captives are given the opportunity to buy their freedom by transporting six crates of unstable dynamite in two ancient trucks through miles of jungle.

  • Director: William Friedkin
  • Principal Cast: Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal
  • Country: USA
  • Year: 1977
  • Running Time: 121 min.
  • Producer: William Friedkin, Bud S. Smith
  • Screenplay: Walon Green, Georges Arnaud
  • Cinematographers: Dick Bush, John M. Stephens
  • Editors: Robert K. Lambert, Bud S. Smith
  • Music: Tangerine Dream
  • Language: English, Spanish, French, German
  • US Distributor: Paramount Pictures