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The Ballad of Joe Hill
- Original title
- Joe Hill
- Year
- 1971
- Gender
- Biography , Drama , History
- Director
- Bo Widerberg
- Country
- Sweden , United States of America
- Details
- 117 minutes / colored / sound
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Synopsis
In the early 1900s, the legendary Joe Hill emigrates with his brother to the United States. But after a short time, he loses touch with his brother. Joe gets a few jobs but is struck by all the injustice and tragedy going on. He becomes active in the forbidden union IWW, a union for workers without trades. It is forbidden to demonstrate and to speak in public but Joe gets around that by singing his manifests with the Salvation Army. He manages to get more and more people to go on strike with him but he also makes powerful enemies doing that. Finally he gets connected with a murder and during the trial he fires his lawyer and takes upon himself to become his own defender.
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