Salt of the Earth
Salt of the Earth
Special guests: Introduction by film historian and critic Ed Rampell. Post-screening conversation with Bill Jarrico, Ellen Geer, Willow Geer and Eva Rosaura Bodenstedt, moderated by Ed Rampell.
Made by three blacklisted filmmakers—director Herbert J. Biberman, producer Paul Jarrico, and writer Michael Wilson—Salt of the Earth depicts the struggle for fair wages of Chicano workers and their wives in a New Mexico zinc mine. Working with a largely non-professional cast, many of whom were involved in the protests that inspired the film, Salt of the Earth was also produced with the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers.
DIRECTED BY: Herbert J. Biberman. WRITTEN BY: Michael Wilson. WITH: Will Geer, David Wolfe, David Sarvis, Mervin Williams. 1954. 94 min. USA. B&W. 35mm. Preserved by The Museum of Modern Art.
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