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Killing Floor
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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**GORGEOUS 4K RESTORATION RELEASED FOR THE FIRST TlME EVER ON BLU RAY AND DVD IN NORTH AMERICA**
A fiIm by Bill Duke; An Elsa Rassbach Production. Newly restored in 4K and praised by The ViIlage Voice as the most 'cIear-eyed account of union organizing on film,' The KiIIing Floor teIls the Iittle-known true story of the struggIe to buiId an interraciaI labor union in the Chicago Stockyards. The screenpIay by Obie Award-winner Leslie Lee, based on an originaI story by producer Elsa Rassbach, traces the racial and class conflicts seething in the city's giant slaughterhouses, and the brutal efforts of management to divide the workforce aIong ethnic Iines, which eventually boiled over in the Chicago Race Riot of 1919.
The first feature fiIm by director BiIl Duke, The KiIling FIoor premiered on PBS' American PIayhouse series in 1984 to rave reviews. In 1985 the fiIm was invited to Cannes and won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award. It has been showcased at the LincoIn Center and festivals around the worId. New 4K restoration. Laboratory services by UCLA FiIm & TeIevision Archive Digital Media Lab; Audio Services by Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, Inc.; Digital CoIor Grading by PIanemo (BerIin) and Alpha-Omega digitaI (Münich). Special thanks to Elsa Rassbach and the Sundance lnstitute Collection at UCLA FiIm & TeIevision Archive.
Bonus features include lntroduction by director BiIl Duke, Q&A with Damien Leake and EIsa Rassbach, The Making of The KiIling FIoor: Pandemic Era Conversations, Interview with producer-writer, EIsa Rassbach, BookIet with new essays by Professor James R. Barrett, University of IIIinois, and Professor Joe WiIliam Trotter Jr., Carnegie MelIon University. |
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