Filmoteca de Catalunya
Concrete cinematheque with two underground screening halls and a film archive of over one hundred seventy thousand reels.
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This guide to the Filmoteca de Catalunya in Barcelona's Raval quarter centers on Salvador Seguí, a labor leader known as El Noi del Sucre for the lump of sugar he took with his coffee before every meeting. It follows his leadership of the anarcho-syndicalist union CNT, the 1919 strike at the power company La Canadenca, and the case he built for an eight-hour working day through argument rather than violence. The guide traces him to the evening of March 10, 1923, as he leaves a workers' meeting a few steps from where you're standing, with a gunman waiting nearby.
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