Losers and Winners Germany
2006, 100min.
Prod.: Michael Loeken; Sabine Rollberg, Script/Dir.: Ulrike Franke; Michael Loeken, Dir. of Phot.: Michael Loeken, Rüdiger Spott, Compos.: Maciej Sledziecki
In the center of the Ruhr Area, one of Germany’s key industrial regions, the famous “heartbeat of steel” has gone silent. A few years after the hypermodern coke plant at Kaiserstuhl, built at a cost of 650 million Euro, was shut down, 400 Chinese workers start breaking it down into manageable parts to ship them back to their homeland: disassembly in the West – reassembly in the Far East. Where up to 800 people used to work, the last 30 German employees are now supervising the so-called Shutdown Department. Communication between the two groups is complicated.
Awards
Best International Documentary (Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2007)
Production Company
Filmproduktion Loeken Franke GbR (Köln)
| Franke, Ulrike Ulrike Franke (born 1970, Dortmund, Germany)
Franke studied Theater, Film & Television Studies, Romance Languages and Art History at the University of Cologne. She then worked on several television and film productions. Since 1996, she has been active as a screenplay writer, director and producer.
Filmography
Und vor mir die Sterne - Das Leben der Schlagersaengerin Renate Kern (1998), Ein Sommer und eine Liebe (1999), Truppenbetreuung (2001), Herr Schmidt und Herr Friedrich (2001), Soldatenglück und Gottes Segen (2002), Losers and Winners (2006)
Loeken, Michael Michael Loeken (born 1954, Neviges, Rhineland, Germany)
Loeken studied Theater, Film and Television Studies in Cologne. In 1981, he wrote the screenplay for and directed the documentary Ich hatte schon begonnen die Freiheit zu vergessen. He worked as a recording supervisor for numerous documentary and feature film productions in 1992-1996. Since 1996, he too has been active as a screenplay writer, director and producer.
Filmography
Und vor mir die Sterne - Das Leben der Schlagersaengerin Renate Kern (1998), Ein Sommer und eine Liebe (1999), Truppenbetreuung (2001), Herr Schmidt und Herr Friedrich (2001), Soldatenglück und Gottes Segen (2002), Losers and Winners (2006)
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