Spaghetti western king Corbucci goes full socialist miner drama—and it's messy, earnest, weirdly riveting.
A group of illegal immigrants find a job in a French mine and organizes strikes to improve their working condition.
Direction
Corbucci trying neorealism—clumsy but fascinating career pivot.
Production
Authentic mine locations that nearly swallow the low budget whole.
Acting
Sernas brings unexpected dignity to underwritten immigrant lead.
Director
Sergio Corbucci
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Corbucci shot this between his early sword-and-sandal pictures and the spaghetti western explosion—it's his awkward political cinema phase.
Released during Italy's post-war emigration boom, the film awkwardly mirrors real French-Italian labor tensions Corbucci barely understood.
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