MOVING IRON

by Kay Ilfrich, Fredo Wulf
  • (c) 2012 Wulfmedien
  •  Fredo Wulf
  • 2012 Fredo Wulf

    Synopsis

    Nowhere in the world produce the same two factories, Vossloh and Voith, successfully modern diesel locomotives as in Kiel. Why is that has to do with political ideas, and people who put them into reality. As in the eighties in the metalworking industry thousands of jobs were destroyed, established made up of workers and engineers from the IG Metall in Kiel MaK Maschinenbau company the Working group Alternative production. Based on these initial political and environmental activists, the film told through eyewitness interviews, archival footage and documentary observations of the extraordinary development of Lokbaus in Kiel continued of the eighties until today.