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Directed by
Michael Glawogger
Produced by
Pepe Danquart
Erich Lackner
Mirjam Quinte
Written by
Michael Glawogger
Music by
John Zorn
Cinematography Wolfgang Thaler
Edited by
Ilse Buchelt
Monika Willi
September 2005 (Venice Film
Festival)
Release dates
Running time
Country
Language
122 minutes
Austria
Pashto, Yoruba, German, English,
Igbo, Indonesian, Mandarin, Russian
Reception
The film was met with a largely positive critical reception with a 73% approval rating
reported by Rotten Tomatoes as of March 2011, with several critics praising its visual feel.
[1]
Walter Addiego of the San Francisco Chronicle' wrote that "Despite the hardships
depicted, many sequences have a dreamlike beauty. In addition, the director has a bone-dry
sense of irony; during the Ukraine scenes, he frequently cuts away to a statue of Stakhanov,
the "hero" lauded by the Soviets for his superhuman work habits".[2]
Film critic Nathan Rabin, writing for The A.V. Club, said that "Glawogger is an
extraordinarily elegant filmmaker with a photographer's eye for striking compositions. He
seems to have selected the jobs documented here as much for their telegenic qualities as
their all-around awfulness, and he excels at divining moments of pure cinema and haunting
beauty out of the most perilous places and professions on Earth".[3]
The Village Voice's Michael Atkinson wrote that "Glawogger's film may be thematically
loose-jointed, but Wolfgang Thaler's cinematography is the glue; the signature movea
flowing Steadicam track before or following a subjectblooms into variations on a
visceral theme, especially as it rhymes the Nigerian butchers stalking through acres of red
mud dragging bull heads with the Indonesians carrying rocks down smoking, touristlittered mountain paths".[4]
Awarding Body
Directors Guild of
America
Award
Best Director - Documentary
Feature
Best Documentary
Best Documentary
Nominee
Michael
Glawogger
Michael
Glawogger
Pepe Danquart
Result
Nominated
Nominated
Won
Erich Lackner
Mirjam Quinte
Gijn Film Festival
Leipzig DOK Festival
Grierson Award
Yerevan Festival
Won
Won
Michael
Glawogger
Won
Won
References
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10-05-2016