Wir waren Kumpel (AT)
Once we were pitmen (AT)
Logline
In times of society conflicts around clima change and gender identities, several men and one woman embark on a tragic and humorous journey to begin a new chapter in their lives, triggered by the closure of the last German coal mine.
- Talent
- Jonas Matauschek
- Role of participant
- Director
- Talent Lab
- Doc Station 2021
- Director
- Christian Johannes Koch
- Producer
- Rajko Jazbec, Tanja Georgieva-Waldhauer
- Screenwriter
- Jonas Matauschek & Christian Johannes Koch
- Status
- in development
- Year of production
- 2022
- Running time
- 90 min
- Genre
- Documentary (Creative)
- Countries of Production
- Germany , Switzerland
- Production Companies
- Catpics AG, Elemag Pictures GmbH
Talent Bio
Jonas Matauschek was born 1987 in Dresden. From 2007 to 2014 he studied photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig, in the class of Prof. Peter Piller. In 2012 he co-founded the collective "film initiative Leipzig" (FILZ). From 2015 to 2016 he took part in the PMMC Lab of Werkleitz e.V. in Halle (Saale). Between 2017 and 2019 he was a lecturer at evening classes within Academy of Fine Arts - Leipzig. He works in the field of video-art and documentary film in various ways. Since 2018 he is part of FILZ e.V. executive board and currently lives in Leipzig.