Peões AKA Metalworkers (2004) - Eduardo Coutinho

Worker from the Brazilian ABC are interviewed twenty-three years after their first strike leaded by their leader Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva. In 1979, Brazil lived a dictatorship, and the metallurgic were the first class of workers that, under the command of the president of their union, Lula, to organize a strike in the military regime and face the police and the dominant class (entrepreneurs). The workers that participated of this movement and worshiped Lula, are interviewed together with footages of their conventions and inter-titles explaining the political and economical situation of Brazil in that moment. A couple of months later, Lula was elected President of Brazil.