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The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.
Silkwood is situated on the Bruce Highway roughly halfway between Tully and Innisfail. [4] The locality is flat land about 10 metres above sea level and is predominantly freehold land used for farming, particularly the cultivation of sugarcane. The north-western border of the locality is Liverpool Creek, which flows eastward to the Coral Sea.
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Dec 14, 1983 · Silkwood. Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep) is a twenty-something hard-living metallurgy worker at the Kerr-McGee plant in Oklahoma, who lives together with her boyfriend (Kurt Russell) and best friend (Cher). When Karen and several other workers become contaminated by radiation, plant officials try to minimize the incident.
Silkwood is a 1983 American biographical drama film directed by Mike Nichols starring Meryl Streep, Cher and Kurt Russell. The screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen was inspired by the life of Karen Silkwood. Silkwood was a nuclear whistleblower and a labor union activist who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged ...
Die Geschichte der Gewerkschafterin Karen Silkwood, die 1974 auf dem Weg zu einem geheimen Treffen mit einem Zeitungsreporter, dem sie belastendes Material gegen eine Plutoniumfabrik zuspielen wollte, unter rätselhaften Umständen ums Leben kam. Der Film ist bemüht, aus dem authentischen Fall das einfühlsame Porträt einer Frau zu machen, die um ihre Identität ringt, er bleibt jedoch weitgehend in den Konventionen des sozialkritischen Problemfilms stecken. Hervorragend: die Leistung der ...
