Stefaan Degand and Peter Van Den Begin can now be admired in a fluorescent suit and a safety helmet. The two actors play the leading role in a series of films that are intended to point out the dangers at the port in Antwerp dockers.
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Screenwriter Emiel Van Wouwe and director Hans Buyse went to the quay to do research, talked for hours with several dock workers and immersed themselves in the Antwerp dialect. ‘If the crane man gets it in his star to look at Antwerp on his mobile phone and you are walking here listening to Beethoven between the containers, I don’t have to draw any drawings for that?’, Warns one actor against using a mobile phone between large industrial machines. “Your fingers squashed by the wrong gloves, and AA’s has to clean your hole?”, The other plastic pleads for good protective material.
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