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A sequence of shots of rural landscapes accompanied by readings of texts about the struggles of poor farmers.A sequence of shots of rural landscapes accompanied by readings of texts about the struggles of poor farmers.A sequence of shots of rural landscapes accompanied by readings of texts about the struggles of poor farmers.

Directors
- Danièle Huillet
- Jean-Marie Straub
Writers
- Friedrich Engels
- Mahmoud Hussein
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5.4/10

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Directors
- Danièle Huillet
- Jean-Marie Straub
Writers
- Friedrich Engels
- Mahmoud Hussein
Stars

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Danièle Huillet

Narrator (segment A)
(voice)

Bahgat Elnadi

Narrator (segment B)
(voice)
(as Bahgat el Nadi)

Gérard Samaan

Narrator (segment B)
(voice)

Gamal Abdel Nasser

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(archive footage)
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Directors
- Danièle Huillet
- Jean-Marie Straub
Writers
- Friedrich Engels
- Mahmoud Hussein
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Featured review

1/10

Stupid

So slow, no story to it, personally I hated this 104 minute waste of time. No idea why this is on 1001.

Trivia
The basis for the film consists of two texts: a letter sent by Friedrich Engels to his disciple Karl Kautsky, and Egyptian intellectual Mahmoud Hussein's "Class Struggles in Egypt". At the center of each text is a discussion of the people's relationship to the land. What Straub and Huillet have done is to film the specific places mentioned in each text: for the Engels section we see shots of Paris, Mottreff, Lyon, and Harville; for the Hussein section we see the area around Cairo; and these shots are synced with a voice-over reading of the texts.