The Truffle Hunters(2021)

Name: The Truffle Hunters
Director: Michael Dweck
Genre: Documentary
Released: Mar 5, 2021
Cast: Maria Cicciù

Sony Pictures Classics

PG-13
Rated PG-13 for some strong language.
1h 24m
- Documentary

Release Date: Mar 5, 2021

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.

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Release Details

Original Release | Mar 5, 2021 | Limited

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Box Office Results

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$22,094
Total US & Canada:
$521,202
Total International
$994,326
Total Worldwide:
$1,515,528

Current Showtimes

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Director & Top Cast

Michael Dweck
Director

Gregory Kershaw
Director

Maria Cicciù
Actor

Technical Specifications

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: Italy, Greece, United States

Language: Italian

Summaries

Storyline

Deep in the forests of Northern Italy resides the prized white Alba truffle. Desired by the wealthiest patrons in the world, it remains a pungent but rarified mystery. It cannot be cultivated or found, even by the most resourceful of modern excavators. The only souls on Earth who know how to dig it up are a tiny circle of canines and their silver-haired human companions-Italian elders with walking sticks and devilish senses of humor-who only scour for the truffle at night so as not to leave any clues for others. Still, this small enclave of hunters induces a feverish buying market that spans the globe. With unprecedented access to the elusive truffle hunters, filmmakers Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw (The Last Race, 2018 Sundance Film Festival) follow this maddening cycle from the forest floor to the pristine restaurant plate. With a wily and absurdist flare, The Truffle Hunters captures a precarious ritual constantly threatened by greed and outside influences but still somehow protected by those clever, tight-lipped few who know how to unearth the magic within nature.