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Bisbee '17

Bisbee '17

It's 2017 in Bisbee, Arizona, an old copper-mining community simply miles from the Mexican border. The community's dense area prepares to commemorate the 100th wedding anniversary of Bisbee's darkest hour: the well known Bisbee Deportation of 1917, throughout which 1,200 striking miners were strongly drawn from their homes, gotten rid of to the middle of the desert, and entrusted to die. Townspeople challenge this fierce, misinterpreted past by organizing remarkable recreations of the intensifying strike. These dramatized scenes are based on subjective variations of the tale and "guided," in a feeling, by homeowners with conflicting views of the event. Deeply personal sectors torn from family history develop towards a large restaging of the deportation itself on the precise day of its 100th wedding anniversary.

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