No Peace Under the Olive Tree (1950)

Original title

Non c'è pace tra gli ulivi

Directed by

Giuseppe De Santis

Genre

drama film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A shepherd in a poor Italian village struggles against a wealthy landowner who exploits the local community. The film follows his fight for justice and dignity in a harsh rural landscape.

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What happens

No Peace Under the Olive Tree (Italian: Non c'è pace tra gli ulivi) is a 1950 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Giuseppe De Santis and starring Raf Vallone, Lucia Bosé and Folco Lulli. It was the director's follow-up to Bitter Rice (1949) which also starred Vallone. It was originally planned to partner him with Silvana Mangano again, but due to her pregnancy she was replaced by Lucia Bosé. Despite the commercial success of Bitter Rice, the Communist De Santis had been stung by left-wing criticism due to American cultural elements included the film which he purposefully excluded from the follow-up. He also included characters who were less ambiguous and concluded with a happy ending, similar to those of Socialist realism. The film's sets were designed by the art director Carlo Egidi. Location shooting took place around Fondi in Lazio, the hometown of director De Santis. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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