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Narrator: During the span of a day, we brush against many people, many things, and different occupations, that seem customary and well-known, and of which in fact we know very little about. We are only aware of what is in direct contact with the interests and the lives of each of us. Everything else is unknown. Who are the dustmen...

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Featured in Michelangelo Antonioni: Lo sguardo che ha cambiato il cinema (2001)

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7/10

Underexposed but fitting tribute to street washers!

The only available copy is very much underexposed so it's hard to actually see what is going on in this early Antonioni venture. However, it explores the wee hours of a profession altogether unglamorous and is a small tribute to people that keep European cities from being overrun by rats and rubbish.

A worthy pursuit and too bad that Antonioni's crew did not have a better light meter at hand.