The Organizer

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robert m @RT01909882 Aug 21, 2021 This is the world that, maybe, your great-grandparents (or their parents) experienced and you'll learn something if you watch the movie. Doesn't matter if your family came from Poland, France, Germany, or Chicago or Pittsburgh. Life in the factories was hard for many men and women (and children.) Mastroianni is fantastic as the college professor who becomes a labor organizer. I've got an old copy of this film. Like many of the classic films about working people, this one is hard to find. See more

Emilio T @MilloTPue May 5, 2020 Between 2.5 and 3 stars. It starts good, but it gets lost as it goes. It's not bad, but there are other more interesting movies about the same issue. See more

s r @ScottR Sep 16, 2018 A comical advocacy for workers' rights. Well made and acted. See more

andres s @RT93190512 Sep 29, 2017 This movie was surprisingly funny. It reminds me in many ways of Fellini and I can definitely say that this director was inspired by Fellini. The cinematography is something to really look at and the location's and set pieces make you feel your really there. There's this genuine character and charm that fills the screen when your watching these characters go about. Each character has there own interesting quirks about them. The ending took an unexpected turn and what seemed like a lighthearted movie all along, ended on a pretty dark note. Nonetheless, it had a pretty endearing and powerful message. Wonderful, extremely under rated, and thoughtful. This movie surprised me in every way. See more

Sep 20, 2015 The Organizer is a grand movie (great reconstructions of epoch, a huge ancient textile mill brought back to full function, massive demonstrations in 18th century garb) and it is a great movie, In the way it takes you into the story and makes you empathize with its agonists. But, unlike what the poor plot description states, it is not so much about the organizer, as it is about the workers and their lives. The organizer, and his colleague the teacher Di Mateo, are paradigms of the ideologues of the time, for sure coming from a higher, more educated class. The organizer is generous and brave; he is also reckless and devious when the situation requires it. But the heart of the movie are really the workers, not the organizer, who is as much a paradigm as he is comic relief. After all, the original title of the movie is I Compagni, best translated as The Fellow Workers (The Comrades would be too loaded a term). Here, virtually every character is engrossing, developed, striking (except probably the bosses--this is not a balanced movie). Especially pay attention to Omero, the young boy, and Raoul, the hothead, in another memorable role by Renato Salvatori. This is what classics are all about. See more

Sep 18, 2015 Set in hard working-class settlement, the workers are forced to work inhuman hours every day, increasing the chance of unexpected injuries. After a man gets his arm crippled, the workers tries to cut the day short by an hour without much luck, only punishment. What they need is a union or even better: a organizer. Arriving like a refugetive Marcelo Mastroianni, somewhat accidentally burst into this as their organizer. The movie itself captures the feeling of poor Italy of the 20th century and gives us insight in the mind of the working man. The voice of the common people. Mastroianni performing with high class as usual. See more

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