Workers from the industrial ABC region of the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo are interviewed twenty-three years after their strike led by Luis Inácio "Lula" da Silva. In 1979 Brazil lived under a dictatorship and the members of the metalworkers union were the first group of workers to organize a strike during the rule of military regime. Interviews of the workers who participated in this movement appear alongside footage of their demonstrations and narrative explaining the political and economic situation in Brazil at the time. Strike leader Lula da Silva was elected president of Brazil just as production of this film was being completed.
Type: DocumentaryLength: 84 minutes
Year: 2004
Audio Language: Portuguese
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Themes: Brazil, History, Politics/Human Rights
Director(s): Eduardo Coutinho
