Packet 8: Tossup 14

Poetic documentaries by a filmmaker from this country include a short film that observes laborers at a soccer stadium and another short following a foreman at a marble quarry. This is the home country of a director who transitioned from a sailor speaking into a tape to a sepia-toned (-5[1])sequence of trains and crowds of people for the opening of a (*) Jack London adaptation set in this country. (-5[1])In a different film (10[1])from this country, a housekeeper silently teaches a foreigner vocabulary with accompanying gestures in a montage (10[1])set to Kraftwerk’s “Spacelab.” That film features a woman named after this country who falls in love with an Englishman leading a band of tomb raiders in this country. For 10 points, what country’s contemporary filmmakers include Yuri Ancarani, Pietro Marcello, and the director of La Chimera, Alice Rohrwacher? (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[2])

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