Once We Were Pitmen

Once We Were Pitmen

103 mins | Documentary | Feb. 29, 2024

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.

Once We Were Pitmen

103 mins | Documentary | Feb. 29, 2024

Once We Were Pitmen
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.
Producers SRF, Elemag Pictures, Catpics
Original title Wir waren Kumpel
Directors Jonas Matauschek, Christian Johannes Koch
Writers Jonas Matauschek, Christian Johannes Koch

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