29 minutes that'll make you angrier at capitalism than your last electric bill.
In 1977, the workers of the INAVE vehicle assembly company went on strike. This strike was declared legal, one of the few registered in the country. This strike was also a strike that demanded great sacrifice from the workers. It lasted more than three months, more than three months without pay and in constant struggle, until the strikers finally achieved their victory.
Direction
Niehaus captures urgency without polish—pure vérité adrenaline.
Editing
Packs three months of struggle into breathless 29 minutes.
Director
Ingo Niehaus
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Costa Rica's 1949 constitution guaranteed strike rights, making 'legal' strikes rare bureaucratic victories in Central America's most stable democracy.
Director Ingo Niehaus was a German expatriate who documented Latin American labor movements throughout the 1970s; most of his films remain archived and rarely screened.
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