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Factory to the Workers

Documentary

2022, Movie, 1h 45min

In Croatia in 2005, a machine tools factory was occupied by its workers. Since then, they have operated collectively, becoming the only successful example of a worker occupation in post-socialist Europe. Today, as they seek a new model of collective ownership, the microcosmic world of the factory clashes with the forces of the globalized market economy, having an increasingly brutal impact on wages and the organization of the factory, causing rising disaffection among the workers. Filmmaker Srđan Kovačević returns regularly over a five year period to make a film that charts the evolution of this communal enterprise. Factory to the Workers tells the inside story of the workers who challenged the dominant economic narrative with their actions. After a decade, the same question remains: can a factory in the hands of workers survive at the periphery of capitalism, or do we need a bigger dream?

Country: Croatia

Directors:

Srđan Kovačević,

Branko Detelj

Critic Phuong Le

rated

...riveting portrait of idealism struggling against the forces of capitalism.

Read full review at The Guardian

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In a small town in Croatia, a group of workers took matters into their own hands and occupied their factory, defying capitalist norms. For over a decade, they've run the factory collectively, but the struggle to survive in a globalized economy is taking its toll. This documentary follows their journey as they search for a new model of ownership and confront the harsh realities of the market. Can their experiment in collective ownership survive, or is a bigger dream needed to truly change the system?

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