The Thistles of The Bărăgan (movie)

Name: The Thistles of The Bărăgan
Director: Louis Daquin
Released: 1957-0-1
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Florin Piersic, Clody Bertola, Marcel Anghelescu, Nuță Chirlea, Ana Vlădescu

Ciulinii Bărăganului

User score: 6.6
Production country: Romania
Producer: Louis Daquin
Production companies: Filmstudio București
Genre: Drama
Release date: 1/1/1957
Run time: 116 min.

Movie description

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.