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In 1929 the world was launched into the darkest time in modern economic history. That same year, Ernest Hemingway wrote: “The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong in the broken places.” “When the World Breaks” is a film about creativity and survival during the Great Depression of the 1930s, with striking parallels to current times. Depression-era life and art come alive with rare film clips and personal stories from survivors like Ray Bradbury, Jerry Stiller, Buzz Aldrin and Phyllis Diller to take us beyond the bread lines and dustbowls into a vibrant cinematic portrait of this formative decade in American history. In the modern era, we appear not to have learned from the terrible decisions that are a shadow in the past. We frequently hear the term recession used in the news, without a real understanding of the wider challenge of a greater depression looming. Watch:
Run time: 123mins
Directed by Hans Fjellestad
Production: Vision Films
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