{"id":28290,"date":"2015-09-25T09:07:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T07:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/filme-2015-miners-shot-down\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T13:58:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T12:58:28","slug":"films-2015-miners-shot-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/en\/films-2015-miners-shot-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Miners Shot Down"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Miners Shot Down<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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DIRECTOR: <\/strong>Rehad Desai\u00a0\u00a0 COUNTRY: <\/strong>South Africa\u00a0 YEAR: <\/strong>2014\u00a0\u00a0 LANGUAGE(S): <\/strong>English, Xhosa, Zulu\u00a0\u00a0 SUBTITLES: <\/strong>German\u00a0\u00a0 RUNNING TIME: <\/strong>86 min\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SECTION:<\/strong> International Forum 2015<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SYNOPSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In August 2012, miners at South Africa\u2019s biggest platinum mine in Marikana, went on strike for higher wages. Six days later, 34 strikers had been killed \u2013 by the police which was supposedly acting in self-defense. Rehad Desai\u2019s captivating investigative documentary shows a radically different picture of the developments which changed South Africa for ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many saw the pictures of the bloodbath on television in 2012: A group of men armed with spears storm towards police, who then open fire. It seems like a clear example of self-defense. MINERS SHOT DOWN also begins with these news images. However, Desai then alters the perspective because he was with the strikers from the very beginning. He combines his original material of the strike and the escalation of the conflict with the TV images and unfolds a very different reality, exposing a shocking scandal: It was not violent mineworkers but the unholy alliance of a ruling party, a powerful trade union and a multinational corporation that were responsible for the first large-scale massacre since the end of Apartheid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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