The election worker
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The election worker |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 8 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harun Farocki |
| script | Harun Farocki |
| camera | Thomas Hartwig |
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The election worker is a short documentary by Harun Farocki , which was created during his second year at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin .
action
The election officials shows the daily life of the court trainee and FDP - election assistant Harold hole during the election to the Berlin House of Representatives in 1967 in the district of Berlin-Kreuzberg . He talks about his Algerian girlfriend, from whom he is separated, and at the end he reads from Frantz Fanon's The Damned of this Earth .
backgrounds
The film was shot between March 3 and 7, 1967 in Berlin-Kreuzberg in the area around Oranienstrasse . At the same time, Farocki's fellow student Irena Vrkljan made a short documentary about the shooting with the title “Farocki turns”.
Web links
- The election worker at filmportal.de
- The election worker in the DFFB archive (film can be viewed)
- Farocki is shooting in the DFFB archive
- The election officials in theInternet Movie Database(English)