Demolition West, reconstruction Far East: After only eight years of operation, the hypermodern Kaiserstuhl coking plant, which cost DM 1.3 billion, is shut down. 400 Chinese workers dismantle it in the Ruhr area and ship it back home. The last Dortmund cokers have to help the Chinese dismantle their own workplace. For a year and a half, filmmakers Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken followed the dismantling of a gigantic industrial plant and documented stories along the way: how the cokers in the Ruhr region experience the arrival and working methods of the Chinese and what they feel when they see their pride disappear along with the world's most modern coking plant.
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Ulrike Franke Director · Michael Loeken Director Maciej Sledziecki Composer
United States release March 31, 2007 · Produced in Germany · Languages Chinese, German
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ARTE
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WDR
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Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
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Germany
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German
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Chinese · German
Release dates
Czechia · March 2, 2007
Premiere · One World Film Festival
Germany · March 15, 2007
Theatrical
United States · March 31, 2007
Chicago International Documentary Film Festival
Canada
April 25, 2007 · Hot Docs International Documentary Festival
Ireland
September 15, 2007 · Stranger than Fiction Festival
Mexico
October 12, 2007 · Morelia Film Festival
Poland
December 8, 2007 · International Film Festival Watch Docs. Human Rights in Film. Warsaw.
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