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Workingman's Death
''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 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 Reception The film was met with a largely positive critical reception with a 73% approval rating reported by Rotten Tomatoes as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Glawogger
Michael Glawogger (3 December 1959 – 23 April 2014) was an Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. From 1981 to 1982, Glawogger studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, and from 1983 to 1989 at the Vienna Film Academy. Like fellow Austrian director Ulrich Seidl, with whom he collaborated several times, he was mainly known for his documentary films, such as ''Megacities'' (1998), ''Workingman's Death'' (2005) and '' Whores' Glory'' (2011). In 2008 he was a member of the jury at the 30th Moscow International Film Festival. Other works In 2013, Glawogger contributed one chapter to "Cathedrals of Culture", a 3-D film on architecture produced by Wim Wenders. Death and legacy Four days after incorrectly being diagnosed with typhus, he died from malaria on 22 April 2014 shortly before midnight in Monrovia, Liberia during a movie production. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
