• Director: Peter Watkins
  • Release Year: 2000
  • Production Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Run Time: 345 minutes

La Commune (Paris, 1871)

Description

Frustrated with their government's failures in war and at home, workers, labor leaders, and other marginalized groups in Paris revolt against their new republican government, setting up their own social democratic government within the city. But were these groups really brigands and social malcontents, or were they heroes and visionaries?

Themes

Second French Empire (1852 – 1870), Franco-Prussian War (1870 – 1871), Paris Commune (1871), Third French Republic (1870 – 1940), Working poor, Labor history, Class conflicts, Social justice, Economic history, Women's history, Socialism, Public memory, Public history, Poverty, Historical reenactments