Director: Gisela Tuchtenhagen
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Biography: Gisela Tuchtenhagen, * 31. Oktober 1943 in Köslin, heute Polen, ist Kamerafrau, Editorin und Regisseurin. Von 1968 bis 1971 studierte sie an der Deutschen Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB). Danach arbeitete sie bis 1979 als Kamerafrau, Co-Autorin und Filmeditorin mit Klaus Wildenhahn.
Country: Germany
Year: 1994
Synopsis: The vegetables come from the garden behind the house, the fish comes out of a can, and money for bread is earned at the factory. It’s because of this money that they came here. Women from Turkey stand side-by-side with women form Mecklenburg at the conveyor belt of a fish-processing factory in Lübeck. Their hands are stained brown, the pungent smell of fish clings to them, and their arms and backs ache. If these jobs were done by men, machines would have been invented long ago to replace them. But female labour is cheap and the women do not complain. They have learned to work - and therein lies the source of their pride. (Source: artechock.de)
Language: Turkish, German