Black dust, shrill metallic noises, dark tunnels, muscular bodies – all that is the past. At the end of 2018, extraction of coal throughout Germany came to an end. That same year, the voices of the emerging climate protest movement Fridays for Future grew louder. Against the backdrop of these media and socio-political events, the film follows five miners on their tragic, humorous and heartwarming search for a new role in life.
Unfortunately the movie Once We Were Pitmen is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Production | Rajko Jazbec | Producer |
| Production | Tanja Georgieva-Waldhauer | Producer |
| Production | Sarah Born | Producer |
| Production | Dario Schoch | Producer |
| Writing | Christian Johannes Koch | Writer |
| Writing | Jonas Matauschek | Writer |
| Camera | Sebastian Klett | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Natali Barrey | Editor |
| Editing | Annette Brütsch | Editor |
| Editing | Jonas Matauschek | Editor |
| Sound | Daniel Hobi | Sound |
| Sound | Jacques Kieffer | Sound |
| Sound | Alexandre J. Maurer | Music |
| Directing | Christian Johannes Koch | Director |
| Directing | Jonas Matauschek | Director |
