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The Song of the Shirt (1979)
Directed by Jonathan Curling, Susan Clayton
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.
Length 129 minutes
Actors
Martha Gibson | Geraldine Pilgrim | Anna McNiff | Liz Myers | Jill Greenhalgh | Sally Cranfield | Paul Bentall | Fraser Cains | Gale Burns | Martin Thom | Edward Clayton | Tony Maples | Richard Barnett | Robbie Barnett | Bob Biddiscombe | Liz Biddiscombe | Leah Bradley | Janet Goddard | Jane Gurnett | Steve Horton | Sandy Maberly | Mary Maddox | Goyo Melnick | Alfred Molina | Cindy Oswin | Ewan Sefton-Smith | Plumelia Tarrant | Melanie Thompson