Working Class Heroes

Selects #8

1 May–31 Jul 24

Manual labor is often noisy, physically demanding and time-consuming. However, it can also promote individual development – either in distinction from the laboring masses or in unity with them. The workplace can serve as a platform for friendships and solidarity out of which class consciousness can develop that can lead to political activism for social justice and improved working conditions: in short, work shapes people’s identities. The heroes and heroines of the films selected (plus one series) for the eighth edition of “Selects”, all of which depict different realities of workers’ lives, show this and much more.

  • Du bist nicht allein, GER 2007, directed by Bernd Böhlich, 97 min, German without subtitles, rated: 6

  • Wer fürchtet sich vorm schwarzen Mann, GDR 1989, directed by Helke Misselwitz, 53 min, English subtitles, rated: 12

  • FRG 1979, directed by Christoph Hübner, Gabriele Voss, 8 episodes, 267 min, German without subtitles, rated: 12

  • GDR 1979, directed by Slatan Dudow, 49 min, English subtitles, rated: 12

  • … sonst steht ja der Betrieb hier still, FRG 1973, directed by Jörg Gför, Wolfgang Jung, Walter Krieg, 61 min, German without subtitles, rated: 0

  • Für Frauen, 1. Kapitel, FRG 1972, directed by Cristina Perincioli, 29 min, English subtitles, rated: 6

  • Rheinstrom, GER 1966, directed by Peter Nestler, 13 min, English subtitles, rated: 0

  • Berlin um die Ecke, GDR 1965/87, directed by Gerhard Klein, 86 min, English subtitles, rated: 12

  • Kuhle Wampe oder Wem gehört die Welt?, GER 1932, directed by Slatan Dudow, 71 min, English subtitles, rated: 12