Kevin Costner’s ‘Dances With Wolves’ Set for New Restored Director’s Cut That Will Launch at Locarno

By Nick Vivarelli

Nick Vivarelli

International Correspondent

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Kevin Costner’s 1990 Western “Dances With Wolves,” about an American Civil War soldier who forges a relationship with a group of Lakota Indians, is getting a new 4K restoration that will launch at the upcoming Locarno Film Festival.

The cult classic, which earned Costner the best director prize at the 1991 Oscars, along with six other Academy Awards, will screen on Aug. 7 on the giant screen of the Swiss lakeside fest’s large outdoor Piazza Grande venue as part of its Histoire(s) du Cinema section. The film’s restored director’s cut is a nearly four-hour extended edition that incorporates over half an hour of previously unseen additional material. “Dances With Wolves” has been restored by Zurich-based laboratory Cinegrell in collaboration with the Locarno Film Festival through its Locarno Heritage project and the film’s international sales agent, K5 International.

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