Coal Face
Trailer: Coal Face
Year: 1935
Genre: Documentary
Studio: GPO Film Unit
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Cast: W.H. Auden, Montagu Slater
Crew: Alberto Cavalcanti (Director), John Grierson (Producer), William Coldstream (Editor), Alberto Cavalcanti (Writer), Montagu Slater (Writer), W.H. Auden (Poem)
Runtime: 11 minutes
Release: Jun 03, 1935
IMDb: 6.09/10 by 17 users
Popularity: 1
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0

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