DOCUMENTARY
The Coal Daughters
Film of the women working in the coal-mines talks about female roles twist in highly traditional environment.
The story explores the strength of the tradition and the profound desire of breaking free.
The Coal Daughters
THE STORY
Full length, in – depth visually refined portrait of the last generation of women doing physical jobs in one of coalmines in southern Poland.
The three women are setting the new rules in the traditional Silesian environment: now the women are working physically, shovelling, cleaning the machines, collecting the scrap, when their husbands, ex coalminers, stay at home to take care of the household. The characters now have to question their conventional roles in the family of a wife and a husband, as they had been taught over the generations. It causes tensions and humorous as well as rebellious moments between all family members. In this feminine setting all eight daughters witness the new situation. The drama comes, when one of the women wants to fallow her dream and starts cosmetic course, what provokes other women to question their positions and life decisions. In the same time one of the daughters starts working in the coal- mine and her family pushes her to continue the tradition when she encounters doubts.
Last generation of women working in the coal - mines in Silesia.
Stage of the project
Now we are in production process.
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