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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 sequence of trains and crowds of people for the opening of a (*) Jack London adaptation set in this country. In a different film from this country, a housekeeper silently teaches a foreigner vocabulary with accompanying gestures in a montage 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? ■END■
ANSWER: Italy (The Ancarani documentaries in the first line are San Siro and Il Capo, respectively; the Jack London adaptation is Marcello’s Martin Eden.)
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