Joe Hill (film)

Joe Hill
Joe Hill
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Bo Widerberg
Written by	Bo Widerberg
Produced by	Waldemar Bergendahl; Bo Widerberg;
Starring	Thommy Berggren
Cinematography	Jörgen Persson
Edited by	Bo Widerberg
Music by	Stefan Grossman
Production; companies	Bo Widerberg Film; Sagittarius Productions;
Distributed by	Europafilm (Sweden); Paramount Pictures (United States);
Release dates	August 25, 1971 (Sweden); October 24, 1971 (United States);
Running time	117 minutes
Countries	Sweden; United States;
Languages	English; Swedish;

Joe Hill is a 1971 biopic about the Swedish-American labor activist and songwriter Joe Hill, born Joel Emanuel Hägglund in Gävle, Sweden. It was directed by Swedish director Bo Widerberg and is a dramatization of Hill's life, depicting Hill's arrival as a poor immigrant in New York in 1902, his involvement with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and his trial for murder, during which he defended himself.

The film stars Thommy Berggren as Joe Hill, while the rest of the cast were mostly unknowns in their first film roles. It is the only film that Widerberg made in the US.

The film won the Jury Prize at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

Joe Hill was mostly unavailable commercially for nearly four decades (though occasionally shown at special film club screenings in Sweden) until a restored and digitally remastered version was produced in 2015 by the National Library of Sweden. It is now available on DVD. The distributor is Studio S Entertainment, Stockholm.

Cast[edit]

Thommy Berggren as Joe Hill
Anja Schmidt as Lucia
Kelvin Malave as Fox
Evert Anderson as Blackie
Cathy Smith as Cathy
Hasse Persson as Paul
David Moritz as David
Richard Weber as Richard
Joel Miller as Ed Rowan
Franco Molinari as Tenor
Robert Faeder as George
Wendy Geier as Elizabeth
Liska March as Sister of Mercy
Michael Logan

References[edit]

^ "Festival de Cannes: Joe Hill". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-04-12.

External links[edit]

Joe Hill at IMDb
Joe Hill at the Swedish Film Institute Database

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