Red Emma (1974)

movie

Country: N/A
Genres: Drama
Release:
Director: Martin Kinch , Allan King
Writers: Carol Bolt
Language: English
Stars: Chapelle Jaffe , Nick Mancuso , Jim Henshaw , David Bolt , Brenda Donohue , Saul Rubinek , William Webster
Runtime: 58 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Red Emma: Queen of the Anarchists (Canada) , Red Emma , Red Emma (Canada)
Plot: Emma Goldman has just arrived in New York City to join a small group of anarchists. She is excited to meet Johann Most, a left wing newspaper publisher, who is renowned within the movement. His primary mantra is espousing the eight hour work day. But as Emma becomes more involved with Most in both a personal sense and for the cause, it brings up the idealistic struggles within the movement between someone like Most who has the ear of the public, and Sasha Berkman, a younger anarchist who has his own thoughts about how best to forward the cause. Berkman, with who Emma would begin a personal relationship, believes that assassinating steel magnate Henry Clay Frick - who many see as the puppet for industrialist Andrew Carnegie - over the Homestead Steel strike would send an important message, one that Most believe foolish. From this struggle would emerge Emma's own voice within the cause.
IMDB:tt0362077