Tobacco Embers

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Overview

TAMBAKU CHAAKILA OOB ALI documents, re-enacts, and takes forward one of the largest movements of unorganized labor of its time and context, which sparked unionizing processes across India throughout the 1980s. In the spirit of mobilizing for the leftist labor and the women’s movements the Yugantar collective spent four months with female tobacco factory workers in Nipani, Karnataka in India, listening to their accounts of exploitative working conditions, discussing strategies for unionizing and steps to broaden solidarities for strike actions, and filming previously unseen circumstances inside the factories.

Details

Status: Released
Release date: May 6, 1982
Original language: Marathi
Countries: India
Production: Yugantar
Director: Yugantar
Producer: Yugantar
Cinematography: Navroze Contractor
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt9691216