Rangierer

Shunting-station workers

Aiguilleurs

  • Jürgen Böttcher
  • 1984
  • German Democratic Republic (GDR)
  • 20 minutes
  • no words
  • © Progress Film Verleih
    © Progress Film Verleih
  • © Progress Film Verleih
    © Progress Film Verleih
  • © Progress Film Verleih
    © Progress Film Verleih

A film about the shunting yard workers at the Dresden-Friedrichstadt station. The railwaymen in the Ablaufberg Collective shunt, halt, hook up and disconnect some 1600 wagons every working day. The night shift has the toughest work, with the snow, ice and fog.

  • Production : DEFA Studio für Dokumentarfilme
  • Editing : Gudrun Plenert
  • Sound : Stefan Edler
  • Photography : Thomas Plenert; Frank Penzold

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