Drama, France, 2024, 14:16 min
French, Yiddish with English subtitles
Emma Goldman is called in the night to help deliver a baby in a poor Jewish family. She tries to alleviate the suffering of the woman in labour. Back home, she is confronted by her partner Ed, exhausted by her absences. Forced to choose between her love for him and her activism, she writes the influential speech "The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation" (1906).
Credits
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Tiresias films
PRODUCER
Laure Dahout
DIRECTOR
Macha Ovtchinnikova
DOP
Alice Desplats
SCRIPT
Macha Ovtchinnikova
EDITING
Flore Guillet
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Sarah Schneider
SOUND
Gaël Eléon
MUSIC
Frédéric Alvarez
CAST
Salomé Ricard, Grégoire Tachnakian, Caroline Corme, François Briault