Workingman's Death
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Michael Glawogger
Ekkehart Baumung
Ilse Buchelt
Pepe Danquart
Michael Glawogger
Erich Lackner
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
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.
Director
Michael Glawogger
Crew
Ekkehart Baumung
Ilse Buchelt
Pepe Danquart
Michael Glawogger
Erich Lackner
Alarich Lenz
Paul Oberle
Mirjam Quinte
Martina Stenech
Wolfgang Thaler
Mona Willi
Pepo Wirthensohn
John Zorn
Film Details
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Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the Golden Gate Award for Documentary Feature at the 2006 San Francisco International Film Festival.
Released in United States 2005
Released in United States 2006
Released in United States February 24, 2006
Released in United States on Video September 2, 2008
Released in United States September 2005
Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (Time and Tide) January 25-February 5, 2006.
Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival (Documentaries) April 20-May 4, 2006.
Shown at Toronto International Film Festival (Real to Reel) September 8-17, 2005.
Shown at Venice International Film Festival August 31-September 10, 2005.
Released in United States 2005 (Shown at Venice International Film Festival August 31-September 10, 2005.)
Released in United States 2006 (Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (Time and Tide) January 25-February 5, 2006.)
Released in United States 2006 (Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival (Documentaries) April 20-May 4, 2006.)
Released in United States February 24, 2006 (New York City)
Released in United States on Video September 2, 2008
Released in United States September 2005 (Shown at Toronto International Film Festival (Real to Reel) September 8-17, 2005.)
