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Workingman's Death

Director Michael Glawogger

Written by Michael Glawogger

Is the working class really dying? Is hard manual labour disappearing, or is it just becoming invisible? 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.

Release date 2005 |

Runtime 122min |

Countries Germany, Austria |

Genre Documentary |

World premiere September 2005 |

Venedig

Film Format 35 mm |

Sound Mix Dolby Surround

Website www.workingmansdeath.at/

World Sales Paul Thiltges Distribution

Distribution (Austria) Filmladen, Filmnetwork GmbH

Credits

Director Michael Glawogger

Written by Michael Glawogger

Cinematographer Wolfgang Thaler

Music John Zorn

Producers Erich Lackner, Peter Wirthensohn

Co-Producers Mirjam Quinte, Pepe Danquart

Financed By Austrian Film Institute, ORF, Vienna Film Fund, Eurimages, MFG, ARTE

Festivals & Awards

Festivals

VENEDIG (62. Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica), CANNES (58e Festival International du Film - 46e Marché du Film), TORONTO (30th International Film Festival), VANCOUVER (24th International Film Festival), LEIPZIG (48. Internationales Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm ), GHENT (32nd Flanders International Film Festival), MONTREAL (34e Festival du nouveau cinéma), WIEN (Internationale Filmfestwochen "Viennale"), LONDON (49th Times bfi Film Festival), SÃO PAULO (29th International Film Festival), JIHLAVA (9th International Documentary Film Festival), DUISBURG (29. Filmwoche), MARIBOR (DokMa Documentary in Maribor), KOPENHAGEN (3rd cph:dox - international documentary festival), KASSEL (22. Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest), OSLO (15th International Film Festival), MAILAND (Filmmaker Film & Video Festival), GIJON (43rd International Film Festival for Young People), BELGRAD (1st Human Rights Film Festival), ZAGREB (3rd Human Rights Film Festival), JAKARTA (7th International Film Festival), ISTANBUL (8th International Meeting of Cinema and History), HELSINKI (6th DocPoint - Documentary Film Festival ), OSLO (5th Eurodok - European Documentary Film Festival), HYDERABAD (1st International Film Festival)

Awards

Deutscher Filmpreis 2007 (Bester Dokumentarfilm), Best Documentary Film 2006 - Golden Apricot Film Festival Yerevan, Goldene Kader 2006 - Austrian Association of Cinematographers, Best Documentary Prize 2006 - 27. Durban International Filmfestival, Golden Gate Award 2006 - 49. San Francisco International Film Festival, Best Documentary 2006 - Ficco (Mexico Contemporary Film Fest), Beste Kameraarbeit (Wolfgang Thaler) und Produzentenpreis für Innovative Produktionsleistung (Lotus-Film) - Diagonale 06, Seeds of War Award 2006 - Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Durham, CPH:DOX AWARD 2005 - CPH:DOX Copenhagen, Grierson Award 2005 - Times bfi London Film Festival, Special Jury Award 2005 - Gijon Filmfestival, FIPRESCI-Jury Award 2005 - Leipzig DOK

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