Forklift driver Klaus - the first day at work

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Movie
Original title Forklift driver Klaus
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2000
length 9 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Stefan Prehn ,
Jörg Wagner
script Stefan Prehn,
Jörg Wagner
production Michael Sombetzki
music Laurent Lombard : Happyland
camera Matthias Lehmann
cut Andrea Stabenow
occupation

Forklift Driver Klaus - The First Working Day is a short film made in 2000 about the first working day of forklift driver Klaus Bassek. The film is a parody of the employer's liability insurance association educational film on occupational safety and accident prevention regulations . The almost ten-minute long splatter film was written and directed by Stefan Prehn and Jörg Wagner, the forklift driver Klaus is portrayed by the actor Konstantin Graudus . The film was shot on company premises in Buchholz in the Nordheide region .

content

The film is in the style of a professional association educational film from the early 1980s and vividly depicts the incorrect use of a forklift. Egon Hoegen , known in particular from the serious traffic safety programs Der 7. Sinn , comments from the off as a speaker .

The main character is Klaus, the fresh owner of a new forklift license , who makes a lot of mistakes on his first day at work, which leads to numerous accidents .

While injuries are only hinted at in the classic educational film, the film makes use of the dramaturgy and irrationality of a slapstick film as well as that of a bloody splatter film : arms are cut off, heads sawed off and people impaled on fork prongs. Although fatal injuries are also shown, all those affected - with the exception of forklift driver Klaus, who has had his head cut off, and a warehouse worker who is cut by a chainsaw - are still fully conscious.

At the end there is a quote from the western genre when the forklift with headless Klaus and impaled warehouse workers, followed by the chainsaw driving behind, drives towards the sunset.

reception

The film quickly achieved cult status . It has won numerous prizes and was shown as a competition entry at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001 . Since 2003 it has been available in a digitally edited version as a DVD with bonus material. The production has been funded by the Filmstiftung NRW , among others .

In the training for the safe handling of forklifts , the short film is often shown to loosen up the lessons. In 2005, at the request of a television editor, the DEKRA Academy pointed out that the film was not part of the training.

The film is also used in a game scene dealing with the training of forklift drivers in the German feature film In den Gänge from 2018.

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