The Take (2004)

Directed by

Avi Lewis, Naomi Klein

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 27m

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

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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