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The Shunting Station Workers

‘Rangierer’, GDR 1984, directed by Jürgen Böttcher, 22 min, with English subtitles, rating: 12

Railway workers of the Ablaufberg collective shunt, brake, uncouple and couple about 1,600 wagons in one shift. The camera captures these men hard at work on night shifts, in snow, ice and fog as a thousand separate actions. 

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