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Wir waren Kumpel

Once We Were Pitmen

Switzerland / Germany, May 2023
FILM, Documentary, 103 min.

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directed by
Christian Johannes Koch, Jonas Matauschek
Written by
Christian Johannes Koch, Jonas Matauschek
Status
In distribution
Politics

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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World Premiere
May 2023
Original Version
German (french/english subtitles),  colour, DCP, 103 min.
ISAN
0000-0004-9FBA-0000-C-0000-0000-1
Production
Catpics, elemag pictures, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, ZDF Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
Producer
Rajko Jazbec, Tanja Georgieva, Sarah Born, Dario Schoch
directed by
Christian Johannes Koch, Jonas Matauschek
Written by
Christian Johannes Koch, Jonas Matauschek
Cinemato­graphy
Sebastian Klatt
Editing
Natali Barrey, Annette Brütsch, Jonas Matauschek
Location Sound Mix
Waldemar Bruch
Sound Design
Daniel Hobi Billeter
Re-Recording Mix
Jacques Kieffer
Music
Alexandre J. Maurer

World Sales / World Rights

World Rights
Catpics , elemag pictures

Worldwide Distribution

Germany
Filmperlen Distribution
Release date: 29.02.2024
Switzerland
Royal Film Verleih Distribution
Release date: 11.04.2024

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