Jürgen Böttcher
Rangierer
Edition 1985
21'
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1984
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Documentary, Short
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Dialogue:
German
Director:
Jürgen Böttcher
A shunter's job is to slow down, link, and unlink train wagons at a central station. The film documents - without any commentary - the working hours of few shunters at the shunting-station Dresden-Friedrichstadt, which was the largest such station in all of the former German Democratic Republic. They work day and night, amidst snow and fog at the railway tracks, speaking only as much as necessary.
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OberhausenCredits
Director
Jürgen Böttcher
Scenario
Jürgen Böttcher, Ulrich Eifler
Director of Photography
Thomas Plenert
Producer
Frank Löprich
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Dialogue
German
Countries of production
East Germany
Year
1984