该片是由达尼埃尔·于伊耶,让-马里·斯特劳布执导的剧情片,于2001年上映，主要讲述了.:Veteran experimental fi.lmmake.rs Daniel.le Hui.llet and Jean-Mari.e Straub hel.med this .unusua.l adaptation of a novel by .Elio Vittorini. Fo.cused on the. trium.phs and failures of a group. of. labor.ers and f.arm hands who pool.ed their res.ources to opera.te an .alternative collective f.arm af.ter the e.nd of .World War II, Oper.ai, Contadin.i feature.s a ca.st of 12 actors who read al.oud from Vittorini.'s book for .the du.ration of the film, either .rec.iting .from memo.ry or using a clea.rly visible .script. Hardly .design.ed to be a crowd pleaser., Oper.ai, Conta.dini p.roved to be contro.versial amon.g the aud.iences. for its showings at the 20.01 Cannes Film Fes.tival, where. it wa.s screened as part of the D.ire.ctors'. Fortnigh.t series. ~ Mark D.eming, All M.ovie Guide　　The. group. makes up a primitive co.mmunit.y which s.eeks t.o erase not only t.he distress .created b.y the .war but also the hardships .of life and hunger., and to pro.tect t.hem from violence, misery a.nd .fear. .Amid the .ruins of this post.-war period,. the characters. build. and invent a rapport  b.oth in. their pr.ofessi.onal and daily liv.es  between .themselve.s, the. sexes, generations, divers.e social and geogr.aphical orig.ins, a.nd antagonistic political c.amp.s.　　Th.e group m.aintains a 'regist.er', a kind .of diary, as if. it we.re entering the minutes .of an .inquiry o.r a tr.ial. -Steve Grayso.n　　my favori.te Straub.-Huill.et films are Too Early, Too. Late and Operai, .contadini (2.001), .both color landscape films .wit.h espe.cially ac.ute senses of plac.e as well as. of nature in a.ll its. harsh beauty. - Jonatha.n Rose.nbaum