--about 18 women who fought for their right--
In Spring 2002, eighteen women from Romania came to the town of Lampertheim, in South-West Germany as seasonal workers. They came for a harvest of asparagus famous in the region. After a month of harvest, the women realised their employer was not going to pay the contracted salary. They staged a fight to recover their money.
In "Asparagus Harvest" four of the women narrate the story of the dispute with their employer. They talk about the reasons why they commute as seasonal workers and why and how they decided to stage a fight against their employer.
The documentary film (12 min, 2004) gives first hints how employees can defend their rights.
The film was made by Gerda Heck and Hagen Kopp and can be downloaded using the P2P client bittorrent:
1. Download the torrent, a small file that contains the tracker information
2. Start the download of the videofile (28 MB)
3. Watch the video with a player that supports ogg theora codec
In case you are not familiar with bit torrent p2p-download utility and ogg theora, the open source multimedia codec, please have a look at the instructions.
Additionally, a VHS pal copy can be received through:
Contact and rental:
amplitude at kein.org
The documentary is a production of the temporary association "everyone is an expert". Many thanks to: Stiftung Menschenwürde und Arbeitswelt, Rosa-Luxemburg Stiftung, Schnittstelle Köln GmbH and Andreas Hollender.
