Keep Up the Good Work

May 2, 2013

1h 34m

★ 8.3

Overview

It is a fetish, a mantra, a secret religion to modern man: work. In times of the financial crisis and massive job reductions, this documentary movie questions work as our 'hallow' sense in life in a way that both humors and pains us.

Genres

Documentary

Comedy

Production Companies

HUPE Film- & Fernsehproduktion

ZDF

Keep Up the Good Work Trailers

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Cast

Self

Susan Blackmore

Self

Konstantin Faigle

Marion Weber

Helene Grass

Wener Kraft

Hubertus Hartmann

Self

Tom Hodgkinson

Sabine

Lilli Hollunder

Self

Benjamin Hunnicutt

Herbert Stollberg-Naue

Roland Jankowsky

Rentner

Heinz W. Krückeberg

Kollege Müller

Stefan Lampadius

Self

Jochen Picht

Sabine Marquart

Nina Proll

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