Welfare

  • Frederick Wiseman
  • 1975
  • United States
  • 167 minutes
  • English
  • © Idéale Audience
    © Idéale Audience

Welfare shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, and the elderly. These issues are presented in a context where welfare workers as well as clients struggle to cope with and interpret the laws and regulations that govern their work and life.

  • Production : Zipporah Films
  • Distribution : Ideale Audience International
  • Editing : Frederick Wiseman
  • Sound : Frederick Wiseman
  • Photography : William (Bill) Brayne