The Song of the Shirt

Name: The Song of the Shirt
Director: Jonathan Curling
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1979-01-01

1979

2h 9m

Documentary

Overview

Song tells the story of the women who worked in Victorian London's clothing sweatshops, eschewing a conventional narrative in favour of a series of still photographs and acted reconstructions to show that this story has been rewritten/written-over many times before.

Director

Jonathan Curling

Top Cast

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Martha Gibson

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Geraldine Pilgrim

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Anna McNiff

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Liz Myers

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Jill Greenhalgh

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Sally Cranfield

Paul Bentall

Fraser Cains

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Gale Burns

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Martin Thom

The Song of the Shirt

Overview

Top Cast

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