Le Mois du doc : quand les femmes ont pris la colère

When the Women Took the Reins by Soazig Chappedelaine and René Vautier

1977 - 1 hr 12 min - For ages 14 and up.

Coubron, Loire-Atlantique, a metallurgical plant belonging to the Pechiney-Ugine Kuhlmann group. To show solidarity with their striking husbands, a group of wives of workers at the Tréfimétaux factory stormed the director’s office and, within two hours, secured what had been denied to them for months.

But management filed a complaint. Twelve of them were charged, and their lives were turned upside down.

With Federico Rossin, film historian.

Press reviews

"It’s a chapter in local history that resonates with History with a capital H—the history of the workers’ struggle, and also that of women’s emancipation."

Here (radio), Cathy Kerzerho