PRISIONEROS DE LA TIERRA

A film by Mario SOFFICI

1939 / Argentina / original title : PRISIONEROS DE LA TIERRA / 85’ / Noir & blanc / status : completed

By 1915, a contractor traveling to Posadas looking for new staff. Among the music and drinks in a bar and shipped to the mill. He is accompanied by a drunken doctor and his daughter. In the mill, injustices and cruelties are accentuated.

The films are restored in 4K by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata from sources around the world.