Pineapple connection

Pineapple connection or Ananas ( pineapple ) is a documentary film of Amos Gitaï left in 1984 denouncing certain misdeeds the liberal internationalization.

Description

The colonization and the annexation of Hawaii by the the United States via the production of Ananas of the Pare Fruit Company.

After the integration of Hawaii like fiftieth state, population having acquired same rights that on the continent, syndicates and asks higher wages.

The same company then transforms the Filipino into a Banana republic with its service. Subjecting the majority of the population in state d'" esclavage" for the production of pineapple. Only an ethnic minority living in the mountains and a Moslem population resistant to the Junte by the weapons escapes this slavery.

Chemicals are dispersed on pineapples in order to enable them to slow down ripening during transport towards the consumer country. The farmers pulverizing these products without any protection have a high death rate.

Lastly, this documentary watch aberrations of the production and the transport of the goods, these pineapples produced in Philippines, being then packed with the Japan before being dispatched in the rest of the world.

Data sheet

original Title: Pineapple anglophone connection
Title: Pineapple
Realization: Amos Gitai
Production: Amos Gitai
Production companies: AG Productions, France 3 Cinema, IKON, Films from here, TV1
Photography: Nurit Aviv
Assembly: Juliana Sánchez
Country: France
Kind: Documentary
Lasted: 76 minutes
Coming out date: France: 1984

See too

On similar topics:

Genesis of a meal (1978), of Luc Moullet, on the production of banana, tuna out of box and banana, in Ecuador, with the Senegal and in Brittany.
the eldorado of plastic (2001) of Arlette Girardot, on the production of fruit and vegetables under Greenhouses by labor immigrant in the South of the Spain.
the nightmare of Darwin (2004), of Hubert Sauper on the production of the pole of the Nile, in the Lake Victoria with the Kenya.

External bonds

Pineapple on Imdb
Card on the site of Amos Gitaï

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