The Peasant's Court
While all the country's agriculture was conducted by collective and state farms, and this way seemed to be the only correct one, the director M. Litvyakov turned to the topic of individual farming, the "privateer". The f
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While all the country's agriculture was conducted by collective and state farms, and this way seemed to be the only correct one, the director M. Litvyakov turned to the topic of individual farming, the "privateer". The f
This film served to introduce the music-hall act of Louisette and Chrétienni and was an integral part of their number.
Once upon a time, there was a sharp-witted peasant’s daughter who lived in great poverty with her father. One day, when the peasant found a mortar made of pure gold in his field, he decides—against his daughter’s wise ad
The screen version of the Saltykov-Shchedrin tale about how two complacent generals miraculously found themselves on an uninhabited island. How a peasant was courting the generals, feeding and dressing them, content hims
The second part of a trilogy on the subject of farming in which an attempt is made to look at the existence of farmers at the end of the 20th century.
The action takes place in a Carpathian village, and the main characters are a little boy named Ivashko, aged 6, and his mother Maria. The story is about one Christmas Eve, when everyone has kutia with honey on their tabl
Hussein is a young villager who dreams of becoming a famous singer because of his beautiful voice, which makes his cousin Ghobashi drives a wedge between him and his love Sitita. Hussein travels to Cairo in search of opp
The early 20th century through the eyes of abstract artists. Pages from the diary of Kazimir Malevich, the founder of Suprematism.
A mockumentary about a group of adventurers from a foreign land who find themselves stuck... in Scarborough.
Documents the congress of the Peasant Confederation of Peru.
Short silent film.
The film authors cautiously approach the village of Gossliwil in Bucheggberg, Solothurn, with its 160 inhabitants, and sift through traces of a rural culture of survival under modern conditions without romanticization. K
Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: First anniversary of Lenin's death / Smycka of the city and the village: group of peasants visit Moscow / Lenin's effect on peasants and oppressed nations
What happens when the values of the culture you’ve always known no longer align with how you see the world? The New Peasants provides an intimate look into the life of Meg, Patrick, and their sons Zephyr and Woody. A fam
Peasant girl Jagna is forced to marry the much older, wealthy farmer Boryna, despite her love for his son Antek. With time, Jagna becomes the object of envy and disdain with the villagers and she must fight to preserve h
Dramatically portraying the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, the film reveals the conditions of virtual slavery which persisted throughout the Middle Ages, and the weaknesses of the feudal system; its oppressive tax structure,
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
Lucania, or the Basilicata, is a region in southern Italy where industrious farmhands have inexorably worked the hills planted with wheat for thousands of years. The labor of yore and the modern farmers of today coexist