The Films of Frederick Wiseman: Welfare (4K Restoration)
Opens April 27, 2025
The Films of Frederick Wiseman | Presented by SIFF and The Beacon
Welfare shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, and the elderly.
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Welfare shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, and the elderly. These issues are presented in a context where welfare workers as well as clients struggle to cope with and interpret the laws and regulations that govern their work and life.
- Director: Frederick Wiseman
- Country: USA
- Year: 1975
- Running Time: 167 min.
- Producer: Frederick Wiseman
- Cinematographers: William Brayne
- Editors: Frederick Wiseman
- Filmography: Titicut Follies (1967), Law and Order (1969), Hospital (1970), Juvenile Court (1973), Primate (1974), National Gallery (2014), In Jackson Heights (2015), Monrovia, Indiana (2018), Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros (2023)
- Language: English
- US Distributor: mTuckman media, inc.