Pirate Cinema Copenhagen

screenings

Title: Kroonjuwelen

Date: 3.10.2007
Time: 20:00
Location: Folkets Hus, 3rd floor
Free entrance

Director: Yimou Zhang
Country: USA
Language: Swedish
Subs: English
Runtime, min: 96
Genre: Thriller / Drama

This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA.

Watch trailer:
» http://youtube.com/watch?v=A3qEBXoeqNI

Links
» http://www.mininova.org/tor/341763
» http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179116/