Alamanya, Alamanya - Germania, Germania (1979)

Directed by

Hans A. Guttner

Genre

documentary film

Country

Germany

Runtime

23 min

Rated

6

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A train carries migrant workers to Germany in the late 1970s. The film shows their hopes for better jobs and lives, documenting the journey of these so-called guest workers from Southern Europe and Turkey.

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What happens

Alamanya Alamanya, Germania Germania è un cortometraggio di Hans Andreas Guttner, uscito nel 1979. Un treno è diretto in Germania, carico di lavoratori emigranti. Dalla fine degli anni Cinquanta moltissimi convogli analoghi sono giunti da Italia, Iugoslavia, Grecia, Turchia, Spagna e Portogallo, trasportando con le persone anche i loro sogni, le loro speranze di una vita migliore e di opportunità lavorative migliori. In tedesco questi lavoratori stranieri sono stati battezzati «Gastarbeiter»: letteralmente «lavoratori ospiti». (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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