SIMON: Michael Dweck, were the truffle hunting people themselves - the dogs, for that matter - ever reluctant about having you along?ĭWECK: (Laughter) No, the dogs were great. We had no idea what we were going to find, but that started a three-year process of making this film. So we traveled back there, and we started exploring. And we had heard this mystery of these old men that go into the woods with their dogs in the middle of the night searching for the world's rarest and most expensive ingredient, the white Alba truffle. And we were in some of the same towns, and we were enchanted by it. And we were talking about our trip to this region in Piedmont. And we didn't realize it at the time, but it was this region in Italy. Michael and I, we'd finished another project that we had been working on for five years, a film called "The Last Race." And we were both traveling separately, and we ended up in the same region just a few weeks apart from each other. KERSHAW: Well, we actually came across this world, I would say, by chance. How did you see this world and want to tell us about it? SIMON: Well, then, let's begin with you then, Mr. Gentlemen, thanks so much for being with us. It opens this week in some cinemas that are open and was directed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, who both join us, one in New York, the other in Stockholm. "The Truffle Hunters" has been a selection at Sundance, Cannes and Telluride and acclaimed by David Rooney in The Hollywood Reporter as a constant feast for the eyes and nourishment for the soul. SIMON: There are no battles, but some price negotiations - no superheroes, except maybe the dogs. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS") Dogs and men - in fact, aged dogs and old men - sniffing out, hunting for white Alba truffles in the woods of Piedmont, Italy. "The Truffle Hunters" is a slice of life from a place on Earth that's as hilly and lovely as a fairy tale kingdom and unusual more than ever in our times.
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