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Răscoala (1965)

Răscoala poster
Directed by
Mircea Mureșan
Genre
drama film
Country
Romania
Runtime
1h 40m
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This film depicts the 1907 Romanian peasant uprising. It follows the events and people involved in the rebellion against landowners.

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What happens

Răscoala is a 1966 Romanian drama film directed by Mircea Mureșan based on a novel by Liviu Rebreanu about the Romanian peasant uprising of 1907. Mureșan won the prize for Best First Work at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. It was the first Romanian film to be submitted to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. However, it failed to be nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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