Forklift Driver Klaus: The First Day on the Job (2000)
"Staplerfahrer Klaus - Der erste Arbeitstag" (original title)

Short film depicting a fictional educational film about fork lift truck operational safety. The dangers of unsafe operation are presented in gory details.

Directors:

Stefan Prehn, Jörg Wagner

Writers:

Jörg Wagner, Stefan Prehn

Stars:

Konstantin Graudus, Gustav Adolph Artz, Jürgen Kittel

6 wins.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Konstantin Graudus	...	Staplerfahrer Klaus
Gustav Adolph Artz	...	Schulungsleiter
Jürgen Kittel	...	Springender Kollege
Soncke M. Korries	...	Helmut, der abstürzt (as Sönke Korres)
Erik Roßbander	...	Messer-Werner
Till Hooster	...	Günther ohne Hände (as Till Huster)
Dieter Dost	...	Halbierter Herbert
Michael Sombetzki	...	Winkender Kollege
Clarissa Schröter	...	Sekretärin
Jürgen Kobel	...	Kettensägen-Rudi
Tom Müller	...	Wolfgang, der Hiwi
Douglas Welbat	...	Kopfhörer-Paul
Dierk Rademacher	...	Klaus ohne Kopf
Karsten Fehe	...	Komparse
Michael Haase	...	Komparse

Storyline

Klaus has just passed his driving test for forklifts. But his first day on the job turns out to be the real challenge. Cruel but informative accidents happen. Only few survive the blood shed. A hommage to industrial safety educational films.

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Plot Keywords:

safety | forklift | spoof | severed arm | blood | 

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Genres:

Animation | Short | Action | Comedy | Horror

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [de] (German / English)

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Release Date:

May 2001 (France)

Also Known As:

German Forklift Video

Filming Locations:

Buchholz, Lower Saxony, Germany

Box Office

Budget:

€90,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Trigon Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

10 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Narrator Egon Hoegen is very well known in Germany as the voice of the education series Der 7. Sinn which gives tips for correct behavior in road traffic. By using this voice at the beginning, it gives the feeling of an authentic safety video for people raised in Germany. See also trivia for Starship Troopers.

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Connections

Featured in Women's Day (2012)

User Reviews

Eww!

At first I thought I was watching one of those cheesy 70's documentaries which used bore us all at school, with its boring educational information. However, this short film starts to get extremely gory, and does it with such ease, as the blood and guts blend in easily, all of which should be taken tongue in cheek. The delivery of the actors is great, seeing their surprised and shocked faces after being impaled, or sliced in half by a metal sheet. By all means see this short film, it's a dark comedy, with lashings of evil dead style gore, to make it something fresh for our viewing pleasure.