Men at Lunch
2013
65 min
en
This remarkable new documentary explores the story behind one of the most iconic images of the twentieth century: the 1932 photograph of workmen taking their lunch while perched on a girder high above New York City.
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Une si belle époque ! La France d'avant 1914
