Description

Barbs, Wastelands 2017
Farpões, baldios (original title)
25min | Short | 26 May 2017 (France)
Storyline:In the end of the 19th century the peasants in Portugal started a courageous struggle for better work conditions. After generations of starving misery, the Carnation Revolution sowed the promise of an Agrarian Reform. Mostly in the Alentejo region, these rural workers occupied the huge properties where they were once submitted to the power of their Masters. Perhaps the lost seed of other fruits…It is said in Alentejo, when something is lost, those who are looking should start to walk back to the beginning. We must pray and ask Saint Lucy to clear our vision, so we can see and look better. The protagonists of this film, resistants of this struggle, many of them illiterate, working since childhood, tell their story to the youngsters of today, in their own words.
Director: Marta Mateus
Writer: Marta Mateus
Stars: Francisco Barbeiro, Gonçalo Prudêncio, José Codices
Country: Portugal
Release Date: 26 May 2017 (France)
Also Known As: Barbs, Wastelands
Filming Locations: Estremoz, Évora, Alentejo, Portugal
IMDB Profile tt6805022

Farpões, baldios (2017)

2017-05-26

5.5

Director: Marta Mateus

Writers: Marta Mateus

Stars: Francisco Barbeiro, Gonçalo Prudêncio, José Codices

Summary: In the end of the 19th century the peasants in Portugal started a courageous struggle for better work conditions. After generations of starving misery, the Carnation Revolution sowed the promise of an Agrarian Reform.

Also known as: Farpões, baldios (2017) on DVD