Irish doc Men at Lunch opens in NYC today
The untold story of New York's greatest legend and one of the most iconic images of the 20th Century opens at the Quad Cinema, New York, tonight, September 20th.
Director Seán Ó Cualáin tells the story of the iconic photo 'Lunch atop a Skyscraper', which has become a symbol of the indomitable working man. Taken during the construction of the GE Building, the photo depicts eleven workmen taking their lunch break while casually perched along a steel girder, boots dangling 850 feet above the sidewalk of 41st Street, with Central Park and the misty Manhattan skyline stretching out behind them.
For 80 years, the identity of the eleven men — and the photographer that immortalized them — remained a mystery: their stories, lost in time, subsumed by the fame of the image itself. But then, at the start of the 21st century, the photograph finally began to give up some of its secrets.
A First Run release, Men at Lunch was financed by TG4, Bord Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board and The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.
Watch the trailer here:
http://www.thisisirishfilm.ie/trailers/men-at-lunch-lon-sa-speir