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Rangierer (director’s cut)

Switchmen (director's cut)
Aiguilleurs (montage original)
Jürgen Böttcher
1984 Germany 45 minutes no words
© Progress Film Verleih
© Progress Film Verleih
© Progress Film Verleih

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
Editing :
Gudrun Plenert
Sound :
Stefan Edler
Photography :
Thomas Plenert