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Film deals with Stakhanovite movement. Old miners try to sabotage young man's plan to renew methods of getting coal.
Director
Writer
Status
Released
Original Language
RU

Vladimir Nikolaevich Sokolov
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.