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  • Official Trailer

Movie Info & Cast

Synopsis

Deep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of men, seventy or eighty years old, hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle-which to date has resisted all of modern science's efforts at cultivation.

Cast

  • Enrico Crippa
  • Carlo Gondola
  • Piero Botto
  • Sergio Cauda
  • Maria Cicciù
  • Aurelio Conterno
  • Gianfranco Curti
  • Angelo Gagliardi
  • Egidio Gagliardi
  • Carlo Gonella

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Metacritic

78
Aug 23, 2021

By focusing on the old men and their dogs who spend their time in the woods of Northern Italy searching for the prized fungus, Dweck and Kershaw operate on a level of gentle, removed observation.

Metacritic review by Barry Hertz
Barry Hertz
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
100
Mar 4, 2021

Just as last year’s beekeeping beauty Honeyland, The Truffle Hunters is a richly allegorical documentary of a vanishing agricultural pastime.

Jake Coyle
The Associated Press
75
Mar 3, 2021

The Truffle Hunters takes us to a part of the world where time appears to have stood still.

Metacritic review by Bob Strauss
Bob Strauss
San Francisco Chronicle