Joe Hill

The film tells the tragic fate of Joel Emanuel Hägglund , famous worldwide as Joe Hill. Hill emigrated from Sweden with his brother and tried to make a life in the USA. However, he couldn’t settle quietly and he became an activist with the syndicalist union "Industrial Workers of the World." Hill began expressing his thoughts through songs and he rapidly gained fame, as well as influential enemies. In 1914, the public was captivated by a sensational murder case, and Joe Hill ended up as the accused. The slogan is "I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night. Alive as you or me. Says I, but Joe you're ten years dead. I never died says he".