A Day with the Builders(1973)
With only music and images, this film captures the grim struggle for existence of a family of unskillled labourers working on the construction of a new building.
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With only music and images, this film captures the grim struggle for existence of a family of unskillled labourers working on the construction of a new building.
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1973-02-02
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