Basic Info
Release: June 21, 1979
Runtime: 49 min
Status: Released
Pig Earth
1979
49 min
Overview
“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.
Genres
Documentary
Production Countries
- United Kingdom
Spoken Languages
- English en
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Cast
John Berger
Self
Jean Mohr
Self
Teodor Shanin
Self
Crew
Penny Forster
Producer
Mike Dibb
Director
Christopher Fox
Producer
Mike Dibb
Producer
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