Veteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptatioVeteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini. Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini's book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script. Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight series. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the characters build and invent a rapport both in their professional and daily lives between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political camps. The group maintains a 'register', a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trial. -Steve Grayson my favorite Straub-Huillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini (2001), both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beauty. - Jonathan Rosenbaum详情
主演：斯蒂芬·阿梅尔,盖布瑞·马赫特,莱克斯·斯科特·戴维斯,乔什·麦克德米特,布莱恩·格林伯格,Troy Winbush,帕顿·奥斯瓦尔特,恩里克·克兰东尼,布莱恩·鲍姆加特纳,阿兹塔·加尼扎达,Rachelle Goulding,内森·维特,Carson A. Egan,玛姬·格蕾斯,维多利亚·嘉丝蒂,索非亚·佩尔纳斯,约翰·阿莫斯,马特·莱斯切尔,凯文·韦斯曼,爱丽丝·李
主演：斯蒂芬·阿梅尔,盖布瑞·马赫特,莱克斯·斯科特·戴维斯,乔什·麦克德米特,布莱恩·格林伯格,Troy Winbush,帕顿·奥斯瓦尔特,恩里克·克兰东尼,布莱恩·鲍姆加特纳,阿兹塔·加尼扎达,Rachelle Goulding,内森·维特,Carson A. Egan,玛姬·格蕾斯,维多利亚·嘉丝蒂,索非亚·佩尔纳斯,约翰·阿莫斯,马特·莱斯切尔,凯文·韦斯曼,爱丽丝·李
