Pig Earth

Synopsis

“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.

Main Cast

John Berger

Self

Age : 90 | Popularity : 25%

Jean Mohr

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Teodor Shanin

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Mike Dibb
Sound	Sound Recordist	Barrie Tharby
	Sound	Peter Rann
Camera	Still Photographer	Jean Mohr
	Director of Photography	Peter Hall
Visual Effects	Animation	Paul Whitbread Malcolm Kipling
Production	Producer	Penny Forster Christopher Fox Mike Dibb
Editing	Editor	Dai Vaughan Howard Sharp
Department	Role	Name

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