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Rumania's entry in the 1958 Cannes Film Festival was the excessively melodramatic Ciulinii Bărăganului. The title translates as Fools of Bărăgan, in reference to a band of beleaguered feudal Rumanian peasants. But these are no fools: instead, they are fearless freedom fighters, organizing a brave (though foredoomed) revolt against the tyranny of the landowners. The parallels drawn between the people of Bărăgan and Russia's revolutionary leaders are all but impossible to miss. It would have been nice, however, if the story had not been told in such a heavy-handed, spell-it-all-out fashion.
Florin Piersic
Tănase
Clody Bertola
Dudaca
Marcel Anghelescu
Ursu
Nuță Chirlea
Matache
Ana Vlădescu
Tudorița
Ruxandra Ionescu
Stana
Nicolae Tomazoglu
Marin
Mihai Berechet
Boyar
Maria Tănase
Floarea
Eugenia Eftimie
Anica
Iulian Necșulescu
Costache
Constantin Țăpîrdea
Tudorel Popa
Haralambie Polizu
Ernest Maftei
Elena Sereda
Matei Alexandru
