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Steel Lives

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Steel Lives. © Marker LTD

Director Massimiliano Mollona, Marker LTD
Country/Production UK
Release 2005
Length 45 mins
Format Colour / DVD / PAL or NTSC / All region
Location UK, Sheffield / Europe
Prizes/Commendations Commendation Student Film Prize 2003

Order No RAI-200.344
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The anthropologist spent several months working as unskilled labourer alongside Sheffield steelworkers at Morris for his PhD. This film is a look into the working lives of men who earn a living in what remains of the Sheffield Steel Industry.Endcliffe is an industrial area in the East End of Sheffield. The film follows the daily routine at the workshop as well as family and leisure activities and portraits the reactions to de-industrialization and work realities.

 

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