Forklift Driver Klaus: The First Day on the Job (2000)

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

5 wins & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Konstantin Graudus	...	Staplerfahrer Klaus
Gustav Adolph Artz	...	Schulungsleiter
Jürgen Kittel	...	Springender Kollege
Sönke Korries	...	Helmut, der abstürzt (as Sönke Korres)
Erik Roßbander	...	Messer-Werner
Till Huster	...	Günther ohne Hände
Dieter Dost	...	Halbierter Herbert
Michael Sombetzki	...	Winkender Kollege
Clarissa Schröter	...	Sekretärin
Jürgen Kobel	...	Kettensägen-Rudi
Thomas Müller	...	Wolfgang, der Hiwi (as Tom Müller)
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 | blood | impaled by a fork lift | 

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Genres:

Short | Action | Comedy | Horror

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Germany] (German, English)

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Release Date:

8 June 2002 (USA)

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 (1966) 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 (1997).

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Connections

Featured in In the Aisles (2018)

User Reviews

Absolutely Hilarious

If you have ever wondered if a forklift could be used as a deadly weapon, look no further than the German short film Staplerfahrer Klaus: Der Erste Arbeitstag.

It starts out like any one of those cheesy workplace safety videos, with the narrator and animations explaining the do's and don't's of forklift operation, as our main character Klaus blunders his way through the first day of work. However, it's not long before his mistakes result in his coworkers dying in hilariously over-the-top gory fashions. Even as if the body count grows higher and higher, the film never really stops trying to be a serious workplace safety video, which is why the whole thing had me in stitches.

Staplerfahrer Klaus is in German, but you certainly don't need to understand the language to enjoy this short.