In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed ceramics workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act - the take - has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head. Armed only with slingshots and an abiding faith in shop-floor democracy, the workers face off against the bosses, bankers and a whole system that sees their beloved factories as nothing more than scrap metal for sale.
Direction
Lewis captures raw urgency without polish or pretense
Editing
Tight 87 minutes that never wastes your radical attention
Writing
Narrative clarity that makes economics viscerally human
Director
Avi Lewis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Naomi Klein co-wrote and produced; she and Lewis married during production. The 'take' movement she later named her book after.
Shot during Argentina's 2001-2002 economic collapse when the peso lost two-thirds of its value overnight. The desperation is real-time.
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