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"Workingman's Death" (AUT / GER 2005) (
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478331/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)
This documentary is a disturbing but also fascinating portrait of physical work in the 21st century.
Director Michael Glawogger has the unique style of just presenting scenes and interviews without any further comment.
It's up to the viewer to form his opinion and expand his view of the world.
The only annotation to this movie is a famous citate from William Faulkner:
„You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy."
movie is split into several episodes (couldn't find the complete version on the web in english):
playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ch8zL2_oWk&list=PL073F9F1BF743735EEpsiode 1: "Lions"
Activity around the Port Harcourt meat market in Nigeria.
Epsiode 2: "Brothers"
Pakistani men dismantling oil tankers with their bare hands.
Epsiode 3: "Heroes"
Freelance Miners in the Ukraine.
Epsiode 4: "Ghosts"
Men mining sulphur on a volcano in the east of Java, Indonesia.
unfortunately last two episodes are missing (please pm or comment if somebody knows where to get them):
Episode 5: "Future"
Chinese steelworkers in Anshan, a city in the province Liaoning, China.
Episode 6: "Epilogue"
Scenes from an ancient smeltery from the Industrial Age in Duisburg-Meiderich, Germany which was converted into an amusement park.
I highly recommend documentaries by this guy and if you liked the first four episodes perhaps think about buying this one for the collection if you're a docu gatherer (like me
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