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Once We Were Pitmen

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Black dust, shrill metallic noises, dark tunnels, muscular bodies – all that is the past. At the end of 2018, extraction of coal throughout Germany came to an end. That same year, the voices of the emerging climate protest movement Fridays for Future grew louder. Against the backdrop of these media and socio-political events, the film follows five miners on their tragic, humorous and heartwarming search for a new role in life.

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Status: Released

Released Date: 2023-05-10

Runtime: 103 mins

Director: Christian Johannes Koch, Jonas Matauschek

Writer: Christian Johannes Koch, Jonas Matauschek

Spoken language: Deutsch

Genres: Documentary

Original title: Once We Were Pitmen

Production Companies: Catpics, Elemag Pictures, SRF

Production Countries: Germany, Switzerland

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