Keyword: peasant

Mother India

8.1

1957

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In this melodrama, a poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, always sticks to her own moral code.

Boerenpsalm

6.4

1989

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This Flemish heimat-movie after a novel by Felix Timmermans, the title of which translates as \farmers psalm\, is about the at first sight idyllic, but actually tragical life of Wortel, a god-fearing peasant in a pre-war Belgian village, who has a hard time accepting the curates assurance its all part of Gods grand plan when his loved ones keep coming to terrible harm, and searching solace in the hand-carving of a wooden statue of Christ.

The Tree of Wooden Clogs

7.9

1978

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Peasant life in a feudal farm in rural Italy at the end of the 19th century.

Viva Zapata!

7.4

1952

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The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of President Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.

Rasputin: The Mad Monk

6.3

1966

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Thrown out of his monastery for licentious and drunken behaviour, Rasputin travels to St Petersburg to try his luck. Through a dalliance with one of the czarinas ladies in waiting he soon gains influence at court with his powers of healing and of hypnotism. But he also makes enemies who wish to see him dead.

The Inheritors

7.3

1998

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Austria, a little farming valley. Beginning of the century. When one of the farmers is found murdered one day, his labourers know of nothing, but are relieved, as the tyranny has ended. Then, something new happens for the first time in history: The farm workers inherit the whole farm together, as the farmer himself was childless. Now, conflicts come up, as nobody is the boss and nobody has to obey.

The Story of Qiu Ju

7.6

1992

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A peasant woman seeks justice after the headman of her village has kicked her husband in the groin.

Thanos and Despina

7

1967

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Thanos, a poor shepherd who has returned to Greece after spending time in Germany as an immigrant worker, puts into motion the mechanism of fate.

Uncle Marin, the Billionaire

8.4

1979

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A Romanian peasant, visiting a friend who is working at a hotel on the Black Sea Riviera, is mistaken for a look-alike rich American businessman.

Up the Yangtze

7.5

2007

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At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up employment on a cruise ship, where they confront rising waters and a radically changing China.