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Thursday, Apr 20, 2017
7 PM (128 mins)
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BAMPFA
Workers, Peasants
(Operai, Contadini)
featuring
Angela Nugara, Giacinto Di Pascoli, Giampaolo Cassarino, Enrico Achilli,
A roster of nonprofessional actors, mainly ordinary workers and farmers from Tuscany’s Pisa province, bring to life a famed Marxist novella (Women of Messina) in Straub-Huillet’s stunning treatise on community and opposition. In the midst of a verdant Italian forest, as the wind lifts the tree leaves and water flows in the nearby brook, these contemporary Italians recite the struggles of a group of peasants and workers during World War II. What Italo Calvino referred to as a “choral narrative” of utopia and unity emerges, one drawn from the past, yet echoing still today.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Jean-Marie Straub
- Danièle Huillet
Based On
based on Women of Messina by Elio Vittorini
Cinematographer
- Renato Berta
Language
- Italian
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- 35mm
- 123 mins
Preceded By
Incantati
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, Italy, France, Germany, 2002
Recently rediscovered, Incantati is an alternate ending to Straub-Huillet’s 2003 work Umiliati, also based on Vittorini’s book.
FILM DETAILS
Language
- Italian
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- DCP
- 5 mins