The cut of the forest is a 1963 television film, directed by Vittorio Cottafavi, taken from the same book by Carlo Cassola.The film, produced by RAI, was broadcast on 19 September 1963 during the cycle of nine films entitled Stories of Italy of today.The film sees Gian Maria Volonté's participation as the only professional actor, while all the other characters are interpreted by the inhabitants of Tirli, the village of the hills where the film is filmed and set. Gianni Rondolino defines the work "a phenomenological film that manages to introduce, in the objectivity of realistic vision, a disturbing moral dimension".