Film

Matewan (1987)

• PG-13
• 28. August 1987
• 2 Std. 12 Min.

• Drama
• Historie

Übersicht

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.

Regisseur

John Sayles

Drehbuchautoren

John Sayles

Besetzung

Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell