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Workingman's Death
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Documentary | Foreign
Written by: Michael Glawogger
Directed by: Michael Glawogger
Release Date:
Theatrical: February 24, 2006
Running Time: 122 minutes, Color
Origin: Austria / Germany
Language(s): German / English / Ibo / Indonesian / Mandarin / Russian
Summary
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Is heavy manual labor disappearing or is it just becoming invisible? Where can we still find it in the 21st century? Workingman's Death follows the trail of the heroes in the illegal mines of the Ukraine, sniffs out ghost among the sulfur workers in Indonesia, finds itself face to face with lions at a slaughterhouse in Nigeria, mingles with brothers as they cut a huge oil tanker into pieces in Pakistan, and joins Chinese steel workers in hoping for a glorious future. (Lotus/Quinte/Arte)
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What The Critics Said
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The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
Workingman's Death's primary pleasures are aesthetic. Glawogger is an extraordinarily elegant filmmaker with a photographer's eye for striking compositions.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michael Atkinson
Michael Glawogger's rather majestic Workingman's Death takes a symphonic structure to document some of the ugliest and most dangerous shit work on the globe.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Ray Bennett
Astonishingly powerful documentary about really, really hard work.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Walter Addiego
This documentary about men and women performing brutal work tasks for next to no money is full of arresting and eloquent images. It has little dialogue, and little is needed.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
There's scant dialogue in Workingman's Death, but little is needed when majestic camera work by Wolfgang Thaler tells the story so well.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
In the film's production notes, Mr. Glawogger wonders, "Is heavy manual labor disappearing or is it just becoming invisible?" In this visually impressive but proudly unscientific hymn to progress, the answers are yes and yes.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
It's a triumph of the human spirit that so many people in deadly jobs are able, nevertheless, to marry and have a few happy moments despite lives of hellish labor. Glawogger's intrepid camera finds both the shame and the grace in it.
Read Full Review >Variety Leslie Felperin
Pic reps a sequel of sorts to his 12-part "Megacities" about poor folk in separate burgs, and comes soaked in good old-fashioned humanist respect for the dignity of labor, but eventually grows a little monotonous.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
John Zorn wrote the percussive score, which is compelling throughout.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt
It's not exactly a good time at the movies, and even as pure education, it's a rather dull film with very little dialogue, but Glawogger does succeed in capturing the images, sounds and even imagined scents (oh, those burning goats) of contemporary hard labor, work that has become nearly invisible to us cubicle jockeys.
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The average user rating for this movie is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes
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