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Endişe [Anxiety] (Yılmaz Güney + Şerif Gören, 1974)

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Labor Day

Endişe (1974)

A Kurdish worker in the cotton fields. She looks straight into the camera while two others continue their work. DP: Kenan Ormanlar.

The Industrial Revolution, or unions, for Labor Day (USA)

 

Kurdish seasonal cotton pickers fear losing their job when mechanisation is preferred by their overseers. While unionising, Cevher, one of the workers – tries to stay out of the hands of his enemies, who want him because of a blood feud.