At War(2019)

1h 53m
- Drama

Release Date: Jul 19, 2019 | Limited

After promising 1100 employees that they would protect their jobs, the managers of a factory decide to suddenly close up shop. Laurent takes the lead in a fight against this decision.

Releases

Original Release | Jul 19, 2019

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Box Office Results

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$1,405
Total US & Canada:
$4,605
Total International
$2,230,447
Total Worldwide:
$2,235,052

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Director & Top Cast

Stéphane Brizé
Director

Stéphane Brizé

Technical Specifications

Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: France

Language: French

Summaries

Storyline

Two years ago, the Perrin Industry Factory, 1100 employees, automotive supplier well known, affiliate to the German group Schäfer, signed an agreement asking to senior-managers and workers to accept a pay cut, in order to save the company in exchange of the promise to protect their jobs on at least the next five years. Today, the company takes the decision to close. The workers, conducted by their spokesperson Laurent Amadeo, refuse the inevitable and try to save their jobs. — Alix Despite heavy financial sacrifices on the part of their employees and record profits that year, the management of Perrin Industries decides to shut down a factory. The 1100 employees, led by their spokesman Laurent Amédéo, decide to fight this brutal decision, ready to do everything to save their jobs. — Cinema Libre Studio 'The reality of the market is extremely harsh and neither you nor I can do anything about it.' With this neoliberal phrase, a representative of the company management tries to justify the closure of a plant of the automotive supplier Perrin in Agen in south-west France to the striking workforce. More than a thousand jobs are at stake. In addition, the employer is in breach of an agreement reached two years previously with the planned closure: This guaranteed job security for five years - on the condition that working hours were increased from 35 to 40 hours while wages remained the same and bonus payments were canceled. The declaration that this agreement is now obsolete in view of the slow increase in profits at the site is a slap in the face for the workforce. Laurent Amédéo soon emerges as the union spokesman, who tries to channel the concentrated anger of his fellow campaigners into constructive channels with reason and passion. As the film progresses, the industrial action becomes more and more intense and increasingly focuses on the differences within the strikers. The movement is increasingly divided between those who want to fight to the bitter end to keep their jobs and those who are in favor of negotiating the highest possible severance pay with the management. — Arte