The Thistles of The Bărăgan
Rumania's entry in the 1958 Cannes Film Festival was the excessively melodramatic Ciulinii Bărăganului. The title translates as Fools of Bărăgan, in reference to a band of beleaguered feudal Rumanian peasants. But these are no fools: instead, they are fearless freedom fighters, organizing a brave (though foredoomed) revolt against the tyranny of the landowners. The parallels drawn between the people of Bărăgan and Russia's revolutionary leaders are all but impossible to miss. It would have been nice, however, if the story had not been told in such a heavy-handed, spell-it-all-out fashion.
Release Date
January 1, 1957Runtime
116 minGenres
DramaDirected by
Louis Daquin, Gheorghe Vitanidis, Dinu CoceaWritten by
Alexandru StruțeanuLanguage
Romanian; Moldavian; MoldovanBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
ReleasedCast
Cast17 cast members
Crew15 crew members