"Veteran 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
陈冠希,李灿森,裴唯莹,张兆辉,黎耀祥,林雪,林嘉华
横滨流星,吉冈里帆,森本慎太郎,山田杏奈,山田孝之,前田公辉,田岛亮,远藤雄弥,宫崎优,森田甘路,西田尚美,山中崇,宇野祥平,骏河太郎,木野花,田中哲司,原日出子,松重丰
劳拉·瓦西里,博格丹·杜米特拉克,Ciprian Chiujdea
Alexander Diego,Edith Ybarra Clara,Frank Ernesto Lam,Alain Alain Alfonso González,Milagros Llanes Martínez,Lola Amores,Jhon Steven Baldriche,Joel Casanova
MARINA SIOTOU,亚尼斯·索特基斯