Working Man's Death
Friday Night Docs by Cinema Politica Fredericton
Friday September 21, 2007
Screening begins 19h00
Venue: Conserver House - 180 St. John St., Fredericton
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.
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
