The Spirit of 45 Year 2013 Production Sixteen Films, Fly Film. Director Ken Loach Runtime 94 Minutes Country UK Producer Rebecca O’Brien, Kate Ogborn, Lisa Marie Russo With Danish Subtitles The award-winning social(real)ist Ken Loach makes his debut as a documentary filmmaker with a gripping film about the rise of the welfare state - and a heartfelt warning against taking it for granted. Unsurprisingly, the starting point is British, but its scope is European. The sense of community during the war became the breeding ground for a strong vision of a more just and united society, at a time when the abject poverty and unemployment of the 1930s and 1940s was still defining peoples lives. After years of hopelessness and influenced by the war experience, the British Labour Party came to power in a landslide victory in 1945. There was no end to happiness, everything exuded peace and growing prosperity. The operation of mines and trains became a public matter and unemployment fell. Right up until Margaret Thatcher set foot in Downing Street. Loach has rolled up his sleeves, and focuses on the hardworking people who built the welfare state stone by stone, and to those who today enjoy its benefits. The Spirit of 45 is a tribute to the spirit that broke with inhuman working conditions and a miserable life in the slums of big cities. And it is another plea for something precious, which far too many people have taken for granted for too long. For why is the generation that owes everything to the social equality project also so eager to dismantle it? CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, 2013
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 14:16:58 +0000
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