Workingman's Death

Workingman's Death is a 2005 Austrian-German documentary film written and directed by Michael Glawogger. It premiered at the 2005 Venice Film Festival. The film deals with the extremes to which workers go to earn a living in several countries around the world. The film is composed of six differently titled chapters. The first five depict hazardous conditions of hard laborers around the world and the sixth shows contrasting scenes of youths in a former German industrial complex which had been converted into a leisure park: Heroes – Miners of Donets Basin, Ukraine Ghosts – Sulfur carriers in Ijen, Indonesia Lions – Butchers in an open-air market in Port Harcourt, Nigeria Brothers – Welders in the Gadani ship-breaking yard in Pakistan The Future – Steel workers in Liaoning, China Epilogue – Youths in Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord in Germany