P R E S S C L I P S

Astonishingly powerful documentary about really, really hard work ... Frightening, stomach turning and deeply moving ...
       Ray Bennett, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

This stunning documentary is enough to make you kiss your white collar in gratitude.
       THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS

A film of few words but plenty of indelible images ... The movie has the structure and tone of an epic historical poem.
       Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES

"Workingman's Death" is not just worth watching for its content. It is a work of art that mobilises the resources of film language.
       (Pamela Biénzobas, FIPRESCI)

Frightening, stomach turning and deeply moving ...
       (Ray Bennett, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)

... rapturously beautiful ...
       (NEW YORK MAGAZINE)

A sobering reality check for anyone who's ever complained about his job ...

       (VARIETY)

One of the Venice Festival's best
       Emanuele Di Nicola, RASSEGNA (Italy)

Biting ... Particularly impressive ...
       Marli Feldvoss, NEUE ZURCHER ZEITUNG (Switzerland)

8 out of 10 ... Extraordinary documentary ... Approximately two hours of images of rare power ... Shocking images, brave and necessary ...
       Gabriella Gallozzi, L'UNITA (Italy)

A film of extreme elegance and beauty ... Glawogger records all with an impressive clearness, his eye does not hide any of the misery and danger of the situations nor does he withdraw showing images of cruelty.
       Aldo Spiniello, SENTIERI SELVAGGI (Italy)

Pleasantly toned by John Zorn, Glawogger's film reaches a connection between art and documentary film like once existed with avant-gardist Walter Ruttmann. From the totalitarian cultural epic film, Glawogger artfully deconstructs a legacy.
       Daniel Kothenschulte, FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU (Germany)

WORKINGMAN'S DEATH ... can be seen as a last hymn (thus, a John Zorn soundtrack) to the worker. But at the same time, it is a chronicle of disappearance, not least of class consciousness, a moving and important contemporary document ...
       Christoph Huber & Olaf Möller, CINEMASCOPE (Canada)

Glawogger films with wisdom ... The narration comes from the images there on the screen, thus seeing renders the knowledge concrete ...
      Gabriella Gallozzi, L'UNITA (Italy)