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The Truffle Hunters
2020 · Film · documentary · 84 min
Directed by Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw
In the secret forests of Northern Italy, a dwindling group of joyful old men and their faithful dogs search for the world’s most expensive ingredient, the white Alba truffle. Their stories form a real-life fairy tale that celebrates human passion in a fragile land that seems forgotten in time.
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I highly recommend this beautifully filmed BBC documentary about the lives of a few ageing truffle hunters and their trusty dogs in northern Italy:
Storyville: The truffle hunters
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0016489/storyville-the-truffle-hunters
It's a great film, still available on BBC iPlayer:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0016489/storyville-the-truffle-hunters
However there was a missed opportunity to end the film on the brilliantly directed scene of the gourmet eating the fried eggs with truffles. The perfect way to end a film about gathering truffles.
"The Truffle Hunters" is a very sweet film, worth watching even if you are not a truffle addict.
If you’d like to see what truffle hunting is like, I can’t recommend “The Truffle Hunters” a 2020 documentary enough. It’s beautifully shot and composed, it’s funny and sad and heart warming, and shows the life of 70-80 year old truffle hunters and their dogs in a way I never knew about or understood.
After seeing the film, I don’t think cultivating these truffles will be a bad thing for everyone involved.