Red Wheat

Dec 28, 1970

1h 25m

★ 6.2

Overview

An ex-partisan and current political activist sets out to Styria region in Slovenia to buy out the wheat from peasants and convince them to form the farming collective. His ostensible success (based on blackmailing rather than convincing), as well as his love defeat, make him disturbed and he kills an innocent man while performing a social mission.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Viba film

Filmska Radna Zajednica (FRZ)

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Cast

Južek Hedl

Rade Šerbedžija

Zefa

Majda Potokar

Hana

Majda Grbac

Tunika

Irena Glonar

Arnold Tovornik

Jože Zupan

Jože Štafela

Milutin Negode

Aktivistka Liza

Angelca Hlebce

Jože Samec

Marjan Bačko

Boris Kočevar

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