Harlan County: Tragédia Americana

Título original: Harlan County U.S.A.

1976
PG
1 h 43 min

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Harlan County: Tragédia Americana (1976)

A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.

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Um registro comovente da luta de treze meses entre uma comunidade que luta para sobreviver e uma corporação dedicada aos resultados financeiros.Um registro comovente da luta de treze meses entre uma comunidade que luta para sobreviver e uma corporação dedicada aos resultados financeiros.Um registro comovente da luta de treze meses entre uma comunidade que luta para sobreviver e uma corporação dedicada aos resultados financeiros.

Direção
- Barbara Kopple
Artistas

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8,2/10

6,9 mil

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Direção
- Barbara Kopple
Artistas

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Ganhou 1 Oscar
- 9 vitórias e 1 indicação no total

Self
(as Dr. Hawley Wells Jr.)

W.A. 'Tony' Boyle

Self - Pres., UMW, 1962-1972
(cenas de arquivo)

Joseph Yablonski

Self
(cenas de arquivo)
(as Joseph "Jock" Yablonski)

Chip Yablonski

Self

Ken Yablonski

Self

Arnold Miller

Self - Miners for Democracy Candidate

Florence Reece

Self

Bazel Collins

Self - Mine Foreman
(as Basil Collins)

Sudie Crusenberry

Self

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When filming began, the film was intended to be about the 1972 campaign by Arnold Miller and Miners For Democracy to unseat UMWA president Tony Boyle, in the aftermath of Joseph Yablonski's murder; however, the Harlan County strike began and caused the filmmakers to change their principal subject, with the campaign and murder becoming secondary subjects.

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Hawley Wells Jr.: [...] that was when I learned my first real political lesson, about what happens when you take a position against the coal operators, against the capitalists... I found out that the union officials were working with the coal companies. I also found that the Catholic hierarchy was working with the coal companies. Here was a combination of the whole thing, you see: you had to bump against the whole combination of them.

Conexões
Featured in Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment (1999)

Trilhas sonoras
Dark As A Dungeon
Written by Merle Travis
Sung by David Morris

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10/10

harlan sings the blues

Barbara Kopple's 1976 documentary "Harlan County USA" remains one of the finest portraits of the struggle between faceless and greedy corporations and the employees who work themselves to the bone to eke out a living. The film deals with a coal miner's strike in a small Kentucky town during the early 70s. These seemingly insurmountable odds to strike up agreements between the company and the union in this Harlan County town dip back as far as a bloody battle there during the 1930s.

The miners and the picketers are captured via a well-maintained cinema verite style to the point that much of the early dialogue in the film is indiscernible and lingers there only as a means to introduce the tone. Music plays a key role in the emotional impact of this gritty film as well. Considering it takes place in the Bluegrass State, it comes as no surprise that so many of the most intense moments in the film carry with them a heart-wrenching rendition of roots music, most of which pertain specifically to coal mining.

"Harlan County USA" removes the presumptions that such human atrocities are far gone memories of America's past, and would pave the way for other important pro-workers rights films as "Norma Rae", "Silkwood", and "Matewan".