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    Los Angeles, Calif. : Vanguard Cinema
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    UID:
    kobvindex_ZLB13313938
    Format: 1 DVD Video (ca. 70 Min)
    Content: Nigel Noble's bluntly downbeat documentary "The Charcoal People" presents a hard-headed picture of how the laws of supply and demand in Brazil are contributing to the destruction of the Amazon rain forest. "Charcoal people" is the nickname for thousands of migrant workers across the country who earn a meager living making the charcoal that is an ingredient of the pig iron used in Brazil's steel industry... The film documents the process by which whole forests are reduced to blocks of charred timber. The timber is shipped by truck to work camps, where it is fed into rows of giant kilns (it takes a day to build one) that resemble brick-and-mortar igloos. High among the hazards the workers must contend with are the infernal heat and choking smoke generated by the kilns. As the workers tell their stories, the struggles they describe aren't all that different from those of exploited laborers all over the world, be they coal miners or sweat-shop employees. Those who ask for raises are often considered troublemakers and fired. One worker recalls a boss who kept the workers in debt by forcing them to buy their supplies from the company store. Not all the testimony is meant to appall. More than one person interviewed actually finds some satisfaction in the work. The cost to the environment, of course, is steep. Just how steep is suggested late in the film by aerial shots of a hideously scarred, smoky section of rain forest. But the movie leaves little doubt that as long as there is an industry hungry for their labor, the charcoal people and the destruction they wreak will continue. (New York Times)
    Note: Portug. mit engl. Untertiteln
    Language: Portuguese
    Keywords: Amazonas-Gebiet ; Köhlerei ; Alltag ; DVD-Video ; Amazonas-Gebiet ; Rodung ; Umweltschaden ; DVD-Video ; DVD-Video
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  • 2
    UID:
    kobvindex_ZLB14112500
    Format: 1 DVD (ca. 74 Min. + Extras) , Tonformat: DD/2.0 Stereo (engl.) , Bildformat: 1.33:1 ; NTSC
    ISBN: 076709168x
    Content: An arresting and optimistic portrait of post-Taliban Afghanistan, the theatrical hit THE BEAUTY ACADEMY OF KABUL captures the wonderfully odd circumstances that bring Afghan and American women together in pursuit of physical beauty and much more. In this utterly unique film, a quirky gaggle of Western hairstylists, including Afghan-American women, armed with blow driers and designer scissors, improbably opens a school to teach eager Afghan women the high art of fixing hair. Torn by decades of war and oppression, the women of Kabul embrace perm rods and mascara with unbridled hope even as they candidly recall the horrors of burkas and bombs. Both humorous and slyly subversive, the film offers poignant moments of culture clash between the Americans and Afghans and touching moments of feminine solidarity. Eschewing the trivial, THE BEAUTY ACADEMY OF KABUL innovatively renders the odd story of international goodwill through hair care in exquisitely humane terms.
    Note: DVD features: Filmmaker post screening Q&A. Deleted scenes. Resource guide. Filmmaker biography. Interactive menus. Scene selection , Ländercode: 1 , Engl. , Orig.: USA, 2004
    Language: English
    Keywords: Kabul ; Afghanistan ; Frau ; Amerikanerin ; Kosmetiksalon ; DVD-Video ; DVD-Video
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