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World Sales
Elmenhorststrasse 2
22767 Hamburg phone_type_3 +49 172 1725044 Phone +49 40 38615723 http://www.der-gipfel.hamburg
22767 Hamburg phone_type_3 +49 172 1725044 Phone +49 40 38615723 http://www.der-gipfel.hamburg
APPLE STORIES
Synopsis
Hamburg, Rwanda and Shenzhen, China, are the stops of the journey undertaken by Hamburg’s documentary filmmaker Rasmus Gerlach in his attempt to trace the line of production of modern mobile phones by example of Apple's iPhone. Can a mineworker‚ ‘starvation wage’ not guarantee her family's survival? The film approaches difficult and complex questions that arise in the production procedures of the iPhone company Apple, a vast enterprise that grants the mineworkers in the tin mines of Rwanda little more than the clothes they wear, and puts such pressure on its labourers in Shenzhen that the local suicide rate made it into the newspapers. Much at Apple is reminiscent of Aldi - from the surveillance of its employees to the hostility towards labour unions. The film is structured by an essayistic dramaturgy - one speaks of a “VJ-Doku”. Rasmus Gerlach is one of the pioneers of this genre, e.g. with PEACE BRIGADES. For APPLE STORIES he once more travelled alone with a camcorder.Cast & Crew
- Director
Festivals/awards
Nordische Filmtage Lübeck (Worldpremiere)World Sales
Elmenhorststrasse 2
22767 Hamburg phone_type_3 +49 172 1725044 Phone +49 40 38615723 http://www.der-gipfel.hamburg
22767 Hamburg phone_type_3 +49 172 1725044 Phone +49 40 38615723 http://www.der-gipfel.hamburg
Cast & Crew
Rasmus Gerlach
