The Workers Cup

2017
6.8| 1h29m| en| More Info
Released: 19 January 2017 Released
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Country: United Kingdom
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Inside Qatar’s labor camps, African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities of the 2022 World Cup compete in a football tournament of their own.

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Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.
Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good
SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling
Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
OJT A film about the exploiting of construction workers from Africa and Asia, coming to build the football grounds for the scandalous and corrupt Qatar World Cup and the shallow background of making a worker's cup as sole band aid.Working under severe and dangerous conditions they build the many new football stadiums before the world Cup, not happy with the food, the working conditions, nor the fact that they are modern slaves, in a desert country in severe lack of construction workers. They build for the rich, which are in their own playground, adding racist rules like disallowing them to even go into the buildings they build after 10 o'clock in the morning.The only entertainment is the football cup which the different firms participate in, which is used for telling the world of great welfare benefits. Apart from that they like the cup, they are not happy, missing their family, being away for years, not earning enough to stop working. They are simply exploited as slaves with low wages and no time off, even for a single day or a date.A meeting with the workers, their dreams, and their frustrations. Their wish for another life, and getting back their own country to build for their family. The film is slow and well balanced only using text for the facts, and letting the workers talk.