THE HAPPY WORKER
Finland 2022 – Director: John Webster – Original language: Finnish – Subtitles: English, None – Length: 81 min.
“Don’t cry – work!” proclaimed Rainald Goetz in the neoliberal vernacular of the 1980s. But where has this permanent self-optimization taken us in an age of markets and career-obsessed CEOs? John Webster’s influential, darkly humorous analysis mercilessly uncovers the drawbacks of our turbo-capitalist world of work. Simon Hauck
No youth rating
We present the German premiere of the film.
John Webster
Born in Helsinki, the filmmaker has made many documentaries since the 1990s. He is interested in "human-interest stories" and long-term observation formats, for which he has already received two Finnish "Jussi Awards".
Filmography
DONNER – PRIVAT, FIN 2021, 79 min.
DIE WELT IST NOCH ZU RETTEN?, FIN 2017, 95 min.
ANLEITUNG ZUR KATASTROPHE, FIN/DNK 2008, 85 min.
DOK.focus BRAVE NEW WORK
Brave new world of work? Hardly any other area of life is undergoing such radical changes. In our thematic series we present seven global perspectives on work in transition.
Writer: John Webster, Eveliina Kantola. Camera: Jarkko T. Laine. Sound: Yngve Sætre. Editing: Kimmo Taavila, John Webster. Music: Olav Øyehaug. Production: Yellow Film & TV. Producer: Marko Talli. Co-Producers: Co-producer: Elisabeth Kleppe Aldeles AS.
