A Strike is No Sunday School
[original title: Ein Streik ist keine Sonntagschule]
Switzerland 1975. 16mm commag., colour, 55 min.
In June 1974, the employees of the piano factory Burger and Jacobi in Biel went on strike, because the company did not accept to pay the 13th month's salary agreed with the Cabinet-Makers Association. The film depicts the course of the strike and the experiences of the strikers. It does not attempt to display the authors's interpretations of this labour dispute but to so convey the dispute presented by the workers themselves – that it can become a subject within political discussions and reflections.
| Director | Hans Stürm, Mathias Knauer, Nina Stürm |
| Photography | Hansueli Schenkel, Hans Stürm |
| Sound | Nina Stürm, Mathias Knauer |
| Editing | Hans Stürm, Mathias Knauer, Nina Stürm |
| Music | Richard Hager, Mathias Knauer |
| Collaborators | Beat Knoblauch (Plakat) , Georg Juon (Mischung) |
| Duration | 55 min. |
| Screening formats | 16mm commag. |
| Shooting format | 16mm Ektachrome Reversal. |
| shooting | 1975 |
| Versions | deutsch (Untertitel); français (voice-over) |
| Release | Solothurn 1975 |
| Festivals | Oberhausen 1975 (Grosser Preis, Fipresci-Preis, Preis Kath. Jury); Moskau, Krakau, Grenoble, Montréal, Leipzig, Firenze, Nyon Prämie EDI |
| Literature | Dumont/Tortajada N° 183 (t.1. p . 213 ss.) |
| Contact, World Rights | Mathias Knauer attacca Filmproduktion Zollikerstrasse 259, CH-8008 Zürich +41 44 493 49 11 +41 79 406 59 03 info@lemmata.ch mathiasknauer.lemmata.ch |
| Production | Hans Stürm |
| ISAN | 0000-0000-D512-0000-3-0000-0000-S |