EVENING LAND (Church of Film)

A vision of an alternate future: three thousand workers at a shipyard in Copenhagen go on strike, protesting the building of nuclear vessels for what many suspect is a military complex developing in the European Union. Within one week, a general strike shuts the country down, a radical cell kidnaps a foreign minister, and the authoritarian underpinnings of a bourgeois democracy are laid bare. The politicians, the workers, the media, the police, the extra-parliamentary guerrillas, all in close-up. EVENING LAND is Peter Watkins’ (The War Game, Privilege) disturbing, paranoid, and controversial docudrama vision of how quickly a country can spin out from radical positive potential toward chaos and reaction.