Underplayed Gems

The Take (2004)

The Take poster
Directed by
Avi Lewis, Naomi Klein
Genre
documentary film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 27m
Rating
7.8 of 10 from 22 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Workers in Buenos Aires take over a closed auto plant and start running it themselves as a cooperative. The film follows their struggle to keep the factory going against economic and legal obstacles.

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What happens

The Take is a Canadian documentary film released in 2004 by the wife and husband team of Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis. It tells the story of workers in Buenos Aires, Argentina, who reclaim control of a closed Forja auto plant where they once worked and turn it into a worker cooperative. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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