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Once We Were Pitmen
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Once We Were Pitmen

May 10, 2023
1h 43m
★ 8.0

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Catpics
Elemag Pictures
SRF

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