RULES OF THE ASSEMBLY LINE, AT HIGH SPEED

2020

Documentary | 92 Minutes | German | Digital
  • Crew
  • Written and directed by: Yulia Lokshina
    DPs: Zeno Legner, Lilli Pongratz
    Editor: Urte Alfs
    Produced by: Isabelle Bertolone, Marius Ehlayil
    Co-Producer: HFF München
    Funded by the Bavarian Film Fund
    Distributor: jip film
  • Awards
  • Bester Dokumentarfilm Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis 2020
    Megaherz Student Award DOK.fest München 2020
    Healthy Workplaces Award doclisboa 2020
  • Synopsis
  • In the West German province, Eastern European contract workers employed in the country's largest pig slaughterhouse are fighting for survival - and activists campaigning for their rights are fighting with the authorities. At the same time, high school students in Munich are rehearsing the play “Die Heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe” (St. Joan of Arc of the Slaughterhouses) and reflecting on German economic structures and their relationship to them. Interwoven with the young people's trains of thought and their engagement with the text during rehearsals, the film uses various fragments to tell the story of the conditions and facets of temporary work and labor migration in Germany.
Eine raffinierte Studie über Wirtschaftsstrukturen, Konsumverhalten und Fragen der Verantwortung.
Süddeutsche Zeitung