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Director(s):
NEUMANN (STAN)
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Producer(s):
LES FILMS D'ICI, ARTE FRANCE
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Territories:
Worldwide.
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Production year:
2023
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Language(s):
German, English, French
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Rights:
TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD
Discover the history of European peasants, from the 6th century to the present day, in a four-part series that travels the European countryside following the traces of its hidden history, which has long remained unwritten.
From the sixth to the twentieth century, most Europeans were peasants. In other words, peasant history is part of the history of Europe too. However, because their culture and historical tradition was oral, most of the peasant history is unkown. The dominant were the only ones to have recorded history and they hardly ever spoke about peasants. There are many descriptions of fields and harvests, but the peasants remained invisible – as if the wheat grew by itself. They were mentionned on very few occasions, but it was always from the masters’ perspective. They were described as a wild and ignorant mass that should not be educated because it would prevent them from working the land. Today, the contemporary historians’ perspective sheds a new light on the history of the rural world to see the peasants no longer as passive objects but as the actors of their own history. Haut du formulaire