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Workingman's Death is a autrichien film of genre Documentary directed by Michael Glawogger released in USA on 26 february 2006

Workingman's Death (2005)

Workingman’s Death

Workingman's Death
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Released in USA 26 february 2006
Length 2h6
Directed by
OriginAustria
Rating78% 3.9377353.9377353.9377353.9377353.937735

Workingman's Death is a 2005 Austrian-German documentary film written and directed by Michael Glawogger. It premiered at the 2005 Venice Film Festival. The film deals with the extremes to which workers go to earn a living in several countries around the world.

The film is composed of six differently titled chapters. The first five depict hazardous conditions of hard laborers around the world and the sixth shows contrasting scenes of youths in a former German industrial complex which had been converted into a leisure park:


Heroes – Miners of Donets Basin, Ukraine
Ghosts – Sulfur carriers in Ijen, Indonesia
Lions – Butchers in an open-air market in Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Brothers – Welders in the Gadani ship-breaking yard in Pakistan
The Future – Steel workers in Liaoning, China
Epilogue – Youths in Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord in Germany

Synopsis

Le film montre cinq exemples de travail physique intense dans des conditions extrêmes dans différents lieux dans le monde. Il est divisé en cinq épisodes qui se déroulent en Ukraine, en Indonésie, au Nigeria, au Pakistan et en Chine. Les personnes filmées parlent dans leurs langues d'origine : pachto, yoruba, allemand, anglais, igbo, indonésien, javanais, mandarin, russe.

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