Workers Leaving the Factory

Germany, 1995

Film
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Based on the first film recording – workers leaving the Lumière factory – Farocki provides an insight in the changes into both the phenomenon of work and film through pictures of workers leaving factories across the years.

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Credits

producer

Christian Baute

Harun Farocki

Heinrich Mis

production company

Harun Farocki Filmproduktion

writer

Harun Farocki

Duration

36:00

Production places
Germany
Production dates
1995 1995

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-239395

Language

German

Subject category

Documentary

TMDB-Movie

239395

Wikidata

Q121827864

Collected

70 times

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