The Organizer
Tuesday, February 19, 2019 @ 7PM
HUB 132 Flex Theatre
Mario Monicelli (1963, Italy, 130 min.)
This Academy Award nominee stars Marcello Mastroianni as a traveling professor drafted to give voice and direction to striking textile workers in turn-of-the-century Turin, Italy. “A moving ode to the power of the people” and the humanity of those trying to overcome inhumane labor conditions, the film highlights the challenge of building social justice coalitions.
[A] simple social drama [that] turns out to be engrossingly human, compassionate and humorous…. [T]he whole thing is done with such veracity … that one feels right in the middle of one of those classic demonstrations in which the labor movement was born.