Flickering Flame, a Story of Resistance

  • Kenneth Loach
  • 1996
  • United Kingdom; France
  • 52 minutes
  • English
  • DR
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“It was never just a job-it was always much more than that. Being a docker was a way of life. It was the greatest game in the world” (ex-registered docker). On 28th September, 1995, Mersey Docks and Harbour Company sacked 329 dock workers, and more than a hundred others for observing the most basic principle of solidarity. One year later, the battle is still going on.

  • Production : Amip; Parallax pictures; BBC 2; Arte
  • Distribution : Arte
  • Editing : Tony Pound
  • Sound : David Keene; Chris Trussler
  • Photography : Barry Ackroyd; Roger Chapman