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Losers and Winners
Film
Title of the film
Original title:
Losers and Winners
English title:
Losers and Winners
Hungarian title:
Vesztesek és nyertesek
Production and shooting info
Country of the production:
Germany - de
Year of production:
from 2003 to 2006
Year of shooting:
from 2003 to 2005
Length of the film:
96 min
Colouring:
colour
Standard format:
DigiBeta
Recording format:
Beta SP
Original language:
German
Chinese
Language of subtitle:
English
Description of the content
For one and a half years, filmmakers Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken watch as a gigantic industrial site is dismantled, documenting the stories accompanying its disappearance: how the coke workers in the industrial Ruhr Region experience the arrival and working methods of the Chinese, their feelings upon seeing their pride in their work vanish along what was the most modern coke factory in the world, but also the strain and conflicts the Chinese workers are subjected to during their 60-hour work week far away from home and family, caught between euphoria and doubts about their future. Two worlds collide. But who is ultimately the winner and who the loser when jobs and the "economic miracle" that made them possible leave the country of their origin and a whole region of Germany experiences first-hand the impact of the phenomenon of globalization, while in the Middle Empire new visions come and go with each passing day?
Credits
Director:
Ulrike Franke
Michael Loeken
Music composer:
Maciej Sledziecki
Producer:
Ulrike Franke
Michael Loeken
Cinematographer:
Michael Loeken
Ruediger Spott
Editor:
Guido Krajewski
Sabine Rollberg
Sound:
Ulrike Franke
Csaba Kulcsar
Company / Institution
Production:
Filmproduktion Loeken Franke
Distributor:
Projectograph
Ethnicity and locality
Etnic group:
German
Chinese
Continent:
Western Europe
Country:
Germany - de
Tipology
Type:
non-fiction film
Form:
documentary film
Beszédmód:
eseménykövető
Related sciences
Social science:
sociology
Technical science:
mechanical engineering
Keyword:
globalization
craft, trade
way of living
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