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Once We Were Pitmen (2024)
Directed by Christian Johannes Koch, Jonas Matauschek
Documentary · 1h 43m
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.
Crew
- Director
- Christian Johannes Koch, Jonas Matauschek
- Writer
- Christian Johannes Koch, Jonas Matauschek
- Director of Photography
- Sebastian Klett
- Editor
- Natali Barrey, Annette Brütsch, Jonas Matauschek
- Producer
- Rajko Jazbec, Tanja Georgieva, Sarah Born, Dario Schoch
Details
- Original title
- Wir waren Kumpel
- Release date
- 2024-02-29
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany, Switzerland
- Production
- Catpics, Elemag Pictures, SRF