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In the 1970s Berger collaborated with the Swiss director Alain Tanner on several films ; he wrote or co-wrote La Salamandre ( 1971 ), The Middle of the World ( 1974 ) and Jonah who will be 25 in the year 2000 ( 1976 ).

His major fictional work of the 1980s, the trilogy Into Their Labours ( made up of the novels Pig Earth, Once in Europa, and Lilac and Flag ), treats the European peasant experience from its farming roots into contemporary economic and political displacement and urban poverty.