Directed by:
Konstantin FaigleScreenplay:
Konstantin FaigleCast:
Konstantin Faigle, Nina Proll, Roland Jankowsky, Angela Merkel (a.f.), Helene Grass, Hubertus Hartmann, Heinz W. Krückeberg, Stefan Lampadius, Piet Fuchs (more)Plots(1)
This documentary comedy looks broadly at work as a source of happiness as well as suffering. Director Konstantin Faigle invited sociologists, economists, theologians, philosophers, historians, psychologists and comedians to think about where Western civilisation finds itself in relation to work. Interviews and surveys accompany playfully staged sequences with a busy pensioner, burnt out engineer and hardworking production manager without orders or cynical insurance agents. The frequently disturbing ideas and issues are balanced by stories about people who have found an alternative to the current system. (One World)
(more)Cast
Konstantin Faigle
West Germany
Nina Proll
Austria
Best movies:
Come Sweet Death (2000)
Center of My World (2016)
Amen. (2002)
Roland Jankowsky
West Germany
Best movies:
Wild Chicks in Love (2007)
The Wild Chicks (2006)
Der Geheimnisvolle Schwiegersohn (2007) (TV movie)
Angela Merkel (a.f.)
West Germany
Best movies:
Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011) - a.f.
Die Ermittler: Nur für den Dienstgebrauch (2016) (TV movie)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) - a.f.
Helene Grass
West Germany
Best movies:
A Good Boy (2008) (TV movie)
Wolves of Berlin (2009) (series)
Cocoon (2020)
Hubertus Hartmann
West Germany
Best movies:
The Lives of Others (2006)
Das Wunder von Berlin (2008) (TV movie)
Bis nichts mehr bleibt (2010) (TV movie)
Heinz W. Krückeberg
German Empire
Best movies:
Sein letztes Rennen (2013)
Morgen, ihr Luschen! Der Ausbilder-Schmidt-Film (2008)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Stefan Lampadius
West Germany
Best movies:
Ein Tick anders (2011)
West (2013)
Stromberg - Der Film (2014)
Piet Fuchs
West Germany
Best movies:
Barefoot (2005)
Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger (2006) (TV movie)
Mein Freund aus Faro (2008)
Michael Schmidt-Salomon
West Germany
Jeremy Rifkin
USA