FILM : PSBT & Max Mueller Bhavan presents "Losers & Winners" at Habitat World, IHC - 20th October 08

Event Details : Public Service Broadcasting Trust and The Max Mueller Bhavan continue with their monthly screenings with the movie 'Losers And Winners'.
In 1992 the world’s most technologically advanced coke plant was constructed in Dortmund at a cost of €650 million. Eight years later the facility was closed and sold to China, lock, stock and building plans. Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken spent one and a half years documenting the dismantling process and the conflicts it provoked between the few remaining German workers and their 400 Chinese successors.
The working tools favoured by the Germans are rules for safety and environmental protection - just the things the newcomers like to ignore. While the Chinese work 60-hours a week far away from home and family, the "old foreigners" are hardly present at the site for more than eight hours at a time. Two worlds collide. Who is ultimately the winner and who the loser when a whole region of Germany experiences first-hand the impact of globalization, while in the Middle Empire new visions come and go with each passing day?
Website : www.losers-and-winners.net/index_en.htm

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