Rules of the Assembly Line, at High Speed

by Yulia Lokshina
  • 2020 wirFILM GmbH

    Synopsis

    A small town in Western Germany is the last stop for 26,000 pigs per day and a brief home for masses of Eastern European temporary workers.
    The workers of the largest slaughterhouse in the country are fighting for survival, while German activists who stand up for their rights are fighting against the local authorities. At the same time, Munich high school students are working on the play "Saint Joan of the Stockyards" and trying to grasp the
    old text and German capitalism of our days.
    Interwoven with the young people's examination of the text in the rehearsals, the film deals in various fragments with conditions and facets of temporary work and labour migration in Germany.

    Festivals

    2020
    Best Documentary — 41 FF Max Ophüls Preis
    megaherz Student Award — 35 DOK.fest Munich
    Filmkunstmesse Leipzig
    Fünf Seen Film Festival
    37 Kassel Dokfest
    Nonfiktionale Zwischenspiel
    Neisse Filmfestival
    Doclisboa IFF
    Artdocfest, Russia

    2021
    Film Critic Award – Best Documentary 2020