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The Match Factory Girl was released on a region-free Blu-ray by Future Film in Finland on 3 December 2013. The release includes five available subtitles (Swedish, English, Norwegian, and Danish in addition to Finnish) along with Kaurismäki's short film Bico, a segment of the 2004 anthology film Visions of Europe. [5]
But the factory still struggled to compete on price, and after 1898 the Salvation Army War Cry newspaper ceased to advertise their matches. [52] Their last make-or-break advertisement was run on 24 February 1900, [52] and the match factory finally closed and was taken over by Bryant & May on 26 November 1901. [54]
Fallen Leaves (Finnish: Kuolleet lehdet, lit. 'Dead Leaves') is a 2023 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki. [6] It is Kaurismäki's 20th full-length film and a continuation of his Proletariat series, which was originally planned as a trilogy and already includes Shadows in Paradise (1986), Ariel (1988), and The Match Factory Girl (1990).
Shadows in Paradise was awarded the Best Film award at the 1987 Jussi Awards. [1] This is the first film in Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy (Shadows in Paradise, Ariel, and The Match Factory Girl). The trilogy has been released on Region One DVD by Criterion, in their Eclipse box-sets, [2] and on region-free Blu-rays by Future Film in the ...
The central character of the musical is Kate, a tenement girl and factory worker, who writes to Annie Besant to ask for help in seeking reform at the Bryant and May factory. The story follows Kate and Annie's attempts to rally the girls, leading Kate to become a reckless strike-leader and a key player in the creation and recognition of the union.
The film provides a fictionalized account of the origins of the Matchgirls' Strike, in which both the title character and her brother Sherlock become entangled. [20] Chapman also appears as a character in a children's novel about the strike, Billy and the Match Girl, by Paul Haston. [21]
A factory girl named Bessie asks Enola to help find her missing sister Sarah Chapman. Bessie takes Enola to the match factory, which is experiencing a deadly typhus epidemic, and encounters Mae, who worked alongside the sisters. Enola follows Mae to the Paragon Theatre where Mae and Sarah work as dancers.
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