Pig Earth (1979): Besetzung, Handlung & Streaming

Released in 1979, Pig Earth is a dokumentarfilm film directed by Mike Dibb, running about 49 minutes.

What it’s about. “Pig Earth” marked John Berger’s first return to television after “Ways of Seeing”. The film, boldly using mostly still photographs, is based on John’s book of the same name, which was both a work of fiction as well as a history of French Peasant experience, as told by John ‘the story teller’, as if in the peasant’s own voices. All of which was given brilliant visual expression in the film through a series of beautifully edited sequences, each constructed from vivid and moving photographs of peasants and their lives, in black and white and colour, by John’s friend and long-time collaborator, the Swiss photographer Jean Mohr.

Who’s in it. Pig Earth stars John Berger as Self, Jean Mohr as Self and Teodor Shanin as Self.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Pig Earth page.

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