End of the Road for Old King Coal
A film about a family of coal merchants fighting for survival in a dying trade
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"It is precisely this unpatronizing attention to the bottom of the pile which reveals so much more than the most objective analysis. Thomas Seekamp and Jens Fintelmann have once again shown that it's down in the detail where the big stories are found."
The newspaper Der Tagesspiegel
Written and directed by Thomas Seekamp and Jens Fintelmann
Camera by Martin Goebel. Sound by Kai Peters
Edited by Sophie Kill. Editor NDR: Margarete Runte-Plewnia
30 minutes. First broadcast March 19, 1999 on 'ARD-exclusiv',
NDR 1999