The Wheat Passion

(festival title)
  • Italy La Passione del grano
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Short / Documentary
Italy, 1963, 10 min

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La Passione del grano depicts a strange ritual, whereby peasants in Lucania (Basilicata) symbolically kill a goat with their sickles and then strip a couple of their clothes. The rites of the south are not affirmed here, but merely stated as a critical reminder of what gets lost on the way to the nation’s future. (Viennale)