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Peace in the Fields (1972)

Peace in the Fields (1972)

Drama
Release Date: 1972, June 20
Directors: Jacques Boigelot
Countries: Belgium
Production: E.G.C.
Cast: Christian Barbier, Charles Gilbert, Nicole Valberg, Claire Wauthion, Lucien Raimbourg, Héléna Manson, Jean Musin, Georges Poujouly, Arlette Schreiber, Marc Audier, Georges Vandéric, Marthe Dugard

Overview:

This is a film which was made in Belgium in the early '60s and was never released. However, it somehow got included in the American Oscar category for "Best Foreign Film," and was finally released in its home country in 1971. It explores the issues of prejudice and superstition in the Belgian countryside through the troubles of a middle-aged farmer whose mother has been accused of being a witch. In French, this picture is based on a true story which took place in the late 1920s and early '30s.