A beautiful documentary by Austrian director Michael Glawogger depicting the precarious and dangerous working conditions in five different countries: Indonesia; Ukraine; Nigeria; Pakistan and China. It covers five different occupations: coal miners; sulphur extractors; butchers at a slaughter market; scrap metal merchants and steel workers. The Working Man does not exist in Glawogger’s masterpiece; he has been replaced by a manual labourer, whose work does not dignify him, rather it deprives him of dignity and often even life. The documentary emphasises the breach between developed and third world countries, whose natural resources are being exploited as well as the workforce.