Great Yarmouth: Provisional Figures
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Mon 24 Apr 23
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Great Yarmouth is a decayed seaside town at the English East Coast. Hundreds of Portuguese migrants try to find a job in the local turkey factories. Tânia is married to the rude Richard, an English hotel owner. She offers shelter to Portuguese workers in her husband’s grubby hotel rooms. Tânia dreams of becoming a British citizen and leaving this dirty business for good.
A lot of films have been made on migration and the violation of workers’ rights, but ‘Great Yarmouth’ is unique because the director focuses on the exploiter. Main actress Tânia is friendly up to a certain point, but in essence she is still a woman extorting money from migrants with her husband. The film is a fierce denunciation of capitalism and its inhuman consequences.
- direction
- Marco Martins
- cast
- Nuno Lopes, Kris Hitchen, Beatriz Batarda
- duration
- 113 min
- year
- 2022
- country
- Portugal
- language
- Portugese, English
- Subtitles
- English, Dutch
Brexit Britain offers only hellish horrors to exploited migrant workers in this bleakly compelling social-realist thriller.