PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Etienne Kallos, director of the film The Harvesters.
Etienne Kallos is a passionate director. He loves his films but most of all he loves the actors, that he employed to tell a story of a family. However, The Harvesters is not just the story of a family, but of a region of the world, where belonging to the land is the most important thing, and where religion is a tool employed to accept the harshness of life and to find reasons to continue.
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