Clara Lemlich
The garment workers’ strike, known as the “uprising of the 20,000”, was a movement whose importance and bitterness left a mark on the entire history of the American workers’ movement. A shirtwaist makers’ strike, a strike by exploited women of different nationalities. In New York in 1909, the strike put Clara Lemlich in the national spotlight; she became the spokeswoman for 20,000 other women. The film is about this movement and this woman. Clara’s America, the America of humiliated but proud pioneers, women, fighters for social justice. They came from all over. Clara was a Russian Jews. Other were Italian, Irish. All would become Americans. The New World was also the result of that mixture.
France - 2004 - 52 mn - DV - Colour and B&W
Director
Alex Szalat
Writer
Alex Szalat, Louisette Kahane
Camera
Ron Rotem
Sound
Abdullah Diallo
Editing
Michèle Loncol
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Production
AS Docs,
82, rue de Crimée,
75019 Paris, France
Tél : +33 (0)1 4202 9325
Fax : +33 (0)1 4202 9325
E-mail : alexsza@mac.com
Co-Production
JEM Productions
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Sales
AS Docs,
82, rue de Crimée,
75019 Paris, France
Tél : +33 (0)1 4202 9325
Fax : +33 (0)1 4202 9325
E-mail : alexsza@mac.com |
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