The Baragan Thistles (1957)

Ciulinii Bărăganului (1957)

Synopsis: Set on the eve of the 1907 peasants' revolt and told from the eyes of an orphaned boy, it is the story of the poverty, hardships, oppression and abuses that ordinary Romanian peasants were subjected to during that period. From the novel „Ciulinii Bărăganului” by Panait Istrati.

Director: Louis Daquin

Writer: Louis Daquin, Antoine Tudal, Alexandru Struțeanu

Stars: Nuță Chirlea, Ana Vlădescu, Florin Piersic