Mélancolie ouvrière

Mélancolie ouvrière

91 mins | Drama, History | Feb. 7, 2018

Long live the strike! Lucie Baud, one of the pioneers of the women's movement, went with creativity, fighting spirit and the power of singing against the weapons of male-dominated capitalist society in nineteenth-century France. The film, based on true events, describes the ambitious fight of a silk moth. She stood up for the rights of the female working class to end maltreatment and oppression once and for all. For the revolution in women's rights, she even put her family back and fought to the end for their beliefs.

Mélancolie ouvrière

91 mins | Drama, History | Feb. 7, 2018

Mélancolie ouvrière
Long live the strike! Lucie Baud, one of the pioneers of the women's movement, went with creativity, fighting spirit and the power of singing against the weapons of male-dominated capitalist society in nineteenth-century France. The film, based on true events, describes the ambitious fight of a silk moth. She stood up for the rights of the female working class to end maltreatment and oppression once and for all. For the revolution in women's rights, she even put her family back and fought to the end for their beliefs.
IMDb rating 6.1
Producers ARTE, JPG Films
Original title Mélancolie ouvrière
Directors Gérard Mordillat
Writers Philippe Sainteny, Gérard Mordillat

Cast

Virginie Ledoyen

as Lucie Baud

François Cluzet

as Pierre Baud

Philippe Torreton

as Charles Auda

François Morel

as Émile Morel

Marc Barbé

as Duplan

Patrice Valota

as Victor Renard

Jacques Pater

as Lengliney