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Rules of the Assembly Line, at High Speed

Rules of the Assembly Line, at High Speed

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 21, 2020

Runtime

1h 32m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Regeln am Band, bei hoher Geschwindigkeit

Production Companies

WirFilm

Director

Yulia Lokshina

Description

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.