Directed by: Michael Glawogger
Script: Michael Glawogger
Producer: Erich Lackner, Mirjam Quinte
Production company: Lotus Film, Quinte Film
Cinematography: Wolfgang Thaler
Editing: Mona Willi, Ilse Buchelt
Music: John Zorn

Format: 35 mm
Running time: 122'

Synopsis
Workingman's Death follows the trail of the heroes in the illegal mines of the Ukraine, sniffs out ghosts among the sulfur workers in Indonesia, finds itself face to face with lions at a slaughterhouse in Nigeria, mingles with brothers as they cut a huge oil tanker into pieces in Pakistan, and joins Chinese steel workers in hoping for a glorious future. Meanwhile, the future is now in Germany, where a major smelting plant of bygone days has been converted into a bright and shiny leisure park.

Awards and Festivals
IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award 2006 - Special Jury Prize
Message To Man Festival 2006 - Best Documentary
Durban International Film Festival 2006 - Best Documentary
San Francisco International Film Festival 2006 - Golden Gate Award for the Best Documentary Feature
Award For Best Documentary Film Camera Work (Wolfgang Thaler), Award for Innovative Production (Lotus Film)
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2006 - Seeds Of War Award
CPH:DOX AWARD 2005 - Best Documentary Film (tied with Werner Herzog's The White Diamond)
London Film Festival 2005 – Grierson Award
Gijon Film Festival 2005 – Special Jury Prize
Leipzig DOK 2005 – FIPRESCI Jury Prize

Directors Biography
Michael Glawogger is a director, writer and cinematographer and his work in each of these roles displays a broad spectrum. Glawogger was born in Graz, Austria, in 1959. He is a traveling filmmaker. Not only does he literally journey around the world for his documentaries, he also moves back and forth between forms and genres, between photography and writing, between gentler and more forceful tones. He graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute and the Vienna Film Academy and has since worked as a director, writer, and cinematographer in Vienna, Bangkok, and Znojmo. His recent works range from the literary adaptation Kill Daddy Good Night (2009) and the quirky comedies Slugs (2004) and Contact High (2009) to his essayist documentaries Whore's Glory (2011), Megacities (2009) and Workingman's Death (2004).

Location and screening schedule: GRIÈ CINEMA, Monday, October 15th at 22.00