Rangierer (director’s cut)
Switchmen (director's cut)
Aiguilleurs (montage original)
1984
Germany
45 minutes
no words
The painstaking and exhausting work of the switchmen at Dresde Friedrichstadt station, day and night, in all weathers. The version chosen by the filmmaker stylises the men’s dignity, the violence of work, the night’s chill, the lamps, the fog and snow, without emptying them of their substance or breath.
Production :
DEFA Studio für Dokumentarfilme
DEFA Studio für Dokumentarfilme
Editing :
Gudrun Plenert
Gudrun Plenert
Sound :
Stefan Edler
Stefan Edler
Photography :
Thomas Plenert
Thomas Plenert