Common People Songs
“See the dawn of a new proletarian era”
2019
12m
DocumentaryMusic
Director: Joel Karppanen
Overview
Interweaving newsreel footage and film extracts with the voices of ‘Ajan laulu’ – a workers’ choir based in Kemi, the most leftist city in Finland – the essay film takes us on a historical journey examining the collective memory, dreams and traumas of the working class. Is there a future for the Finnish labour movement?
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