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Nous paysans

2021 · 90 min Documentary
7.8 / 10 · TMDB

The French peasant endures a century of radical transformation, witnessing a world upended. Once the backbone of the nation, they now form a dwindling minority grappling with an immense duty: to keep feeding France. The narrative traces this arduous march from the humble tenant farmer at the dawn of the 1900s, through the devastation of the Great War and the moral ambiguities of the Occupation, into the postwar frenzy of industrialization. It is a chronicle of mechanization, shifting identity, and a looming reckoning that demands nothing less than reinventing tomorrow's agriculture.

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Year 2021
Country France
Genre Documentary
Director Fabien Beziat
Runtime 90 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.8/10 (5 votes)

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This sweeping documentary constructs a poignant, century-spanning saga from archival footage and personal narratives, framing the peasant's plight as the nation's own. It resists mere nostalgia, offering instead a clear-eyed elegy for a vanishing world and a critical look at the costs of modernization.

What lingers after viewing is a profound sense of a broken covenant with the land and a pressing question about the future of our food. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Fabien Beziat

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The grit of soil and grease, the solemn weight of history, a fading world captured in grainy film.

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