Workers, Peasants [Operai, contadini]

Release Year
2001
Runtime
2h 3m
Genres
Drama
Directed By
Jean-Marie Straub
Danièle Huillet
Workers, Peasants

A group of men and women have been brought together after World War II, when Italy regained its national and territorial unity. They make up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life, and look to protect themselves from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, these men and women build a new rapport between themselves, between sexes, between generations, between social and geographical origins, between political camps.

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