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Baragan Thistles

1957

Nuta Chirlea, Ana Vladescu, Ruxandra Ionescu, Florin Piersic ...

Drama Rumania’s entry in the 1958 Cannes Film Festival was the excessively melodramatic Ciulinii Barganului. The title translates as Fools of Baragan, 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 Baragun and Russia’s revolutionary ... [+]

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