Red Wheat

Red Wheat

1970 · 85 min · ★ 6.4 · Drama

An ex-partisan and current political activist sets out to Styria region in Slovenia to buy out the wheat from peasants and convince them to form the farming collective. His ostensible success (based on blackmailing rather than convincing), as well as his love defeat, make him disturbed and he kills an innocent man while performing a social mission.

Directed by Živojin Pavlović · Written by Živojin Pavlović

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