Red Wheat

Red Wheat

85 mins | Drama | Dec. 28, 1970

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.

Red Wheat

85 mins | Drama | Dec. 28, 1970

Red Wheat
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.
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers Viba Film, Filmska Radna Zajednica (FRZ)
Original title Rdeče klasje
Directors Živojin Pavlović
Writers Ivan Potrč, Živojin Pavlović

Cast

Rade Šerbedžija

as Južek Hedl

Majda Potokar

as Zefa

Majda Grbač

as Hana

Irena Glonar

as Tunika

Angelca Hlebce

as Aktivistka Liza