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Genre: Documentary film
Year: 1960
Runtime: 00:10:00
Description: An old peasant ritual at harvesting time: to “avenge” the wheat’s death, farmers kill a goat, the mythological animal responsible for the death of crops, and strip a woman of her clothes, which are given to the earth as a wish for fertility after winter.
Collection:
Provider: Cineteca di Bologna
Rights: In Copyright / For information about the rights holder please contact Cineteca di Bologna.
Production company: Corona Cinematografica
Colour: Colour
Director: Michetti, Antonio
Sound: With sound
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Collection: Cineteca di Bologna Film Collection
Language: it