The Thistles of The Bărăgan

01/01/1957

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1hr 56min

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Drama

STORY

Rumania's entry in the 1958 Cannes Film Festival was the excessively melodramatic Ciulinii Bărăganului. The title translates as Fools of Bărăgan, in reference to a band of beleaguered feudal Rumanian peasants. But these are no fools: instead, they are fearless freedom fighters, organizing a brave (though foredoomed) revolt against the tyranny of the landowners. The parallels drawn between the people of Bărăgan and Russia's revolutionary leaders are all but impossible to miss. It would have been nice, however, if the story had not been told in such a heavy-handed, spell-it-all-out fashion.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Florin Piersic
  • Clody Bertola
  • Marcel Anghelescu
  • Nuță Chirlea
  • Ana Vlădescu

    Directors

  • Louis Daquin
  • Dinu Cocea
  • Gheorghe Vitanidis

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Filmstudio București

    Production Countries

  • Romania

LANGUAGES

  • Romanian