Working Man's Death
Tatamagouche (NS)
Friday October 5, 2007
Screening begins 19h30
Austria - Germany / 2005 / 122min
The new film from the director of Megacities: 12 Stories of Survival.
Today's manual laborers are no longer celebrated with hymns of praise. They must be content with encouraging one another that backbreaking work is better than no work at all...
In the Ukraine, a group of men spend long days crawling through cramped shafts of illegal coal mines. Sulfur gatherers in Indonesia brave the smoky heat of an active volcano and the treacherous trip back down. Blood, fire and stench are routine for workers at a crowded open-air slaughterhouse in Nigeria. Pakistani men use little more than their bare hands to dismantle an abandoned oil tanker for scrap metal. Steelworkers in China fear they could be a dying breed...
Five portraits of heavy manual labor, increasingly less visible in our technological 21st Century.
Awards:
CPH:DOX award 2005 in Copenhagen International Dokumentar Filmfestival
GRIERSON AWARD in London film Festival for best full length feature documentary
FIPRESCI-Jury Prize in Leipzig International Film Festival (the international federation of film critics)
Special Jury Prize in GIJON
Best Documentary Film Camera Work at Diagonale (Austrian Film Festival)
Best Documentary in FICCO (Mexico Contemporary Film Fest)
Seeds of War in 2006 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Written and directed by Michael GLAWOGGER
Creative consultant: Pepe DANQUART
Director of photography: Wolfgang THALER
Steadicam: Tilman BÜTTNER
Sound engineers: Paul OBERLE Ekkehart BAUMUNG
Editor: Mona WILLI
Line producer: Pepo WIRTHENSOHN
Producers: Erich LACKNER Mirjam QUINTE
Production: LOTUS-FILM GESMBH QUINTE FILM
