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Production Line Animals

2023 · 98 min

A sober, quietly devastating look at industrial farming that leaves you unsettled and thinking long after it ends.

Directed by
Damien Vercaemer, Caroline du Saint
Genres
Documentary, Tv movie
Starring
Florence Loiret Caille, Stéphanie Prouteau, Olivier Proteau
Overview
How did it come about that we no longer see living beings in farm animals, but objects? Every year, 70 billion farm animals are slaughtered for consumption around the world. 80 percent are kept on large farms. They live crammed together in overcrowded stables, are fattened and finally slaughtered without ever having been in nature. In less than two generations, intensive husbandry has become established worldwide. Researches in Poland, the USA, Germany and Vietnam gets to the bottom of the system and those responsible. The meat industry is subsidized by the state. Corporations, governments and consumers tacitly support a deregulated and dehumanized economic system that makes unlimited consumption of animal products the norm - and with it, animal cruelty. The documentary film describes the triumph of industrial agriculture, in which the animal has to endure unimaginable suffering, becomes a commodity, a raw material that is always available and can be slaughtered and processed at will.

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Directed by
Damien Vercaemer, Caroline du Saint
Genres
Documentary, Tv movie
Starring
Florence Loiret Caille, Stéphanie Prouteau, Olivier Proteau
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  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
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  • earneststrength 2 of 3
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measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
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Themes
  • environment
  • class
  • power
  • corruption
  • morality
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  • countryside
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
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  • Gore mild
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Humour1
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Darkness8
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Details

Genres
documentary, tv movie
Directed by
Damien Vercaemer, Caroline du Saint
Written by
Caroline du Saint
Starring
Florence Loiret Caille, Stéphanie Prouteau, Olivier Proteau, Jay Hall, Dominic Pacyga, Marcel Sebastian, Léopoldine Charbonneaux, Romain Espinosa
Music
David Leroy, Pierre Aviat
Cinematography
Damien Vercaemer, Joseph Haley
Runtime
98 min
Country
Belgium, France, Switzerland
Languages
English, French, German, Polish, Vietnamese

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