Shunters
Shunters

Shunters

Rangierer

Release date : 1984-11-30

Production country :

East Germany

Production company :

DEFA-Studio für Wochenschau und Dokumentarfilme

Status : Released

Durasi : 21 Min.

Popularity : 0.449

7.1

Total Vote : 7

A shunter's job is to slow down, link, and unlink train wagons at a central station. The film documents - without any commentary - the working hours of few shunters at the shunting-station Dresden-Friedrichstadt, which was the largest such station in all of the former German Democratic Republic. They work day and night, amidst snow and fog at the railway tracks, speaking only as much as necessary.