Workingman's death

	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. produced by : LOTUS-FILM (A) / QUINTE FILM (D), 2005 release in: September 2005 The CPH:DOX Jury's motivation : Workingman's Death is an impressive work of art. The film shows that deep trust in the complexity of documentary moments can result in fascinating and breathtaking film scenes. And it does! Just what is needed and nothing more. So humble. So precise. PRESS RELEASES Hollywoodreporter yahoo.com abc In toronto ARTE (Français) ARTE (Deutsch) The Jakarta Post QUOTES : click here AWARDS: click here

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