Thunder Among the Leaves

Thunder Among the Leaves Spanish El trueno entre las hojas is a 1958 Argentine drama film directed by Armando B, starring himself, Isabel Sarli, Ernesto Bez and Andrs Laszlo. The screenplay by Paraguayan writer Augusto Roa Bastos was based in his short story La hija del ministro. Set in Paraguay, the story is about a strike at a sawmill.

Authors have described the aesthetics of the film reminiscent of those by Hugo del Carril and Mario Soffici because of its social commentary. Some have described Bs work as feuilleton, as he regained its generic guidelines described by Arnold Hauser a predilection for the exaggerated, crude and exotic in the case of Thunder Among the Leaves in a scene in which Julio B rapes Flavia Sarli. It is said that Sarlis inclusion in the film was inspired by Brigitte Bardots role in And God Created Woman.During principal photography, B convinced Sarli to be naked in a scene in which she bathed in a lake, although she was previously told she would wear a fleshcolored bodystocking. Although B told Sarli they would shoot from afar, the camera had magnification. ........

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