ONCE WE WERE PITMEN
by Christian Johannes Koch, Jonas Matauschek
synopsis
Black dust, shrill metallic noises, dark tunnels, muscular bodies – all that is the past. At the end of 2018, extraction of coal throughout Germany came to an end. That same year, the voices of the emerging climate protest movement Fridays for Future grew louder. Against the backdrop of these media and socio-political events, the film follows five miners on their tragic, humorous and heartwarming search for a new role in life.
international title: | Once We Were Pitmen |
original title: | Wir waren Kumpel |
country: | Switzerland, Germany |
year: | 2023 |
genre: | documentary |
directed by: | Christian Johannes Koch, Jonas Matauschek |
film run: | 103' |
screenplay: | Christian Johannes Koch, Jonas Matauschek |
cinematography by: | Sebastian Klatt |
film editing: | Natali Barrey, Annette Brütsch, Jonas Matauschek |
music: | Alexandre J. Maurer |
producer: | Rajko Jazbec, Tanja Georgieva, Sarah Born, Dario Schoch |
production: | Catpics AG, elemag pictures GmbH, SRF - Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) |
distributor: | Royal Film Verleih Distribution, Filmperlen |