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Tales from the Planet Earth Presents: Losers and Winners (2006)

Date:  November 7, 2009
Time:  3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Location:  Fredric March Play Circle
Sponsor:  Please see event description for sponsor information.

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Overview:
An official selection of over 30 film festivals and winner of numerous documentary film awards, Losers and Winners faithfully recounts the dismantling of a steel coke plant in the heart of Germany's Ruhr Valley for relocation to China. The simultaneous slowdown of European industry and explosion of the Chinese economic behemoth has transformed landscapes of labor around the globe and, in this case, led to the transplanting of what was once the world's most sophisticated coke plant after only eight years of operation at its original site in Germany. In the race to relocate the plant quickly, the new owners bring hundreds of Chinese workers to Germany, creating a clash of cultures as each country's workers view the demolition of a manufactured landscape with opposing feelings of optimism, despair, alienation and understanding. (Showing with Solitary Life of Cranes)

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A member program of the International Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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