Arsena, the Brigand (1923)
Following an order of the landowner, the bride of Arsena’s fellow villager gets kidnapped and the bride’s father is relentlessly flogged. Arsena tries to rescue the woman but fails and goes to the mountains with his newly married wife. Above all, Arsena learns that his wife is impregnated by the landowner and burns down his house. Arsena gets arrested, but manages to escape and joins the rebel peasants. Arsena feels that with the passage of time the rebels turn into criminals and continues to fight with the oppressors alone.
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This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.