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Bookmark this pageThe Taste of the Black Earth (1969)
Director: Kazimierz Kutz
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From Time Out Film Guide
A film about the 1920 Silesian uprising, when bands of insurgents rebelled against the German occupation troops. The story is told through the eyes of a 16-year-old boy, youngest of a family of seven sons who join the uprising; and in approach the film owes more to Hollywood than to a Communist propaganda tradition, though without the simplification of issues or the false heroics of the Western attitude to immediate history. Visually it's a small masterpiece, stunningly shot in the beautiful browns and greens of the 'land' for which the men are fighting.Author:
Cast & crew
Director: Kazimierz Kutz
Cast: Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Jerzy Binczycki, Jerzy Cnota, Wieslaw Dymny, Daniel Olbrychski full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 103 mins
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