Film · Documentary

Once We Were Pitmen (2023)

Black dust, shrill metallic noises, dark tunnels, muscular bodies – all that is the past. At the end of 2018, extraction of coal throughout Germany came to an end. That same year, the voices of the emerging climate protest movement Fridays for Future grew louder. Against the backdrop of these media and socio-political events, the film follows five miners on their tragic, humorous and heartwarming search for a new role in life.

Director

Christian Johannes Koch, Jonas Matauschek

Writers

Christian Johannes Koch, Jonas Matauschek

Country

Germany, Switzerland

Language

German

Release date

May 10, 2023

Original title

Wir waren Kumpel