A strike is not a Sunday school
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | A strike is not a Sunday school |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Swiss German , Italian |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 58 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Hans Stürm , Mathias Knauer , Nina Stürm |
| script | Hans Stürm, Mathias Knauer |
| music | Richard Hager, Mathias Knauer |
| camera | Hansueli Schenkel, Hans Storm |
| cut | Hans Stürm, Nina Stürm, Mathias Knauer |
A strike is not a Sunday school is a 1974 documentary by Hans Stürm , Mathias Knauer and Nina Stürm-Schatz .
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The film was shot with union support during a strike that lasted several weeks at the Burger & Jacobi piano factory in Biel in June 1974. The reason for the strike in the joinery trade was that the company no longer wanted to pay the agreed thirteenth month's salary. 41 women and men took part in the strike.
Strikes were hardly possible because of the Swiss collective labor agreements. As a result, the employer had more leverage, depending on the situation, the workforce was inexperienced, the union had no concept. The result was ultimately a complete success for employers with minimal concessions.
The film makes it clear who's in charge: ringleaders are fired, workers are played off against each other, especially the language groups of Italian workers and Swiss.
The workers showed solidarity only briefly when the company management mocked them. But soon this alliance fell apart and fear spread. The union weighed down: “You have to be humble”, the women: “a strike is not good”.
The film gets by without comments, no intervening texts, no conclusion at the end. The workers speak in their own language, i.e. Swiss German and Italian.
At the end of the film there is a glimmer of hope: the workers say they will strike again, more successfully. They learned and realized that they were stronger than they believed.
Reviews
"In the style of a chronicle, factual and poignant at the same time, in this strike documentary, a high-ranking educational film, the strike phases were analyzed from the perspective of those affected."
Awards
The film won the Grand Prize at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival in 1975 .
Web links
- Description at Autonomous School Zurich
- A strike is not a Sunday school in the dictionary of international film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Everyone should crawl . In: The time . No. 15/1976 ( online ).
- ↑ Christoph Bühler. Yumma! Aneee! Films by Hans Stürm and Beatrice Michel in cinemas in Zurich. The WochenZeitung 09/2005, March 3, 2005