The read
It runs a compact 34m.
Synopsis
Through the testimony of Manuel Taborda, a pioneer of labor organizing in Venezuela’s oil fields, this documentary revisits the experiences of oil workers between 1920 and 1936. Their memories reveal a world marked by corporal punishment, exploitation, racial segregation, and disease, alongside the emergence of collective resistance against the American and British oil companies that controlled the industry and the government that enabled them.
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Key crew
- Jesús Enrique GuédezDirector
- Jesús Enrique GuédezWriter
Cast
- Manuel TabordaSelf
Themes
trade unionoil industryvenezuelan history