"My motive was to make a twenty-minute-long film out of only photos – where do you go with that, what limits do you reach. You always need to make a film in such a way that you reach your own limits, otherwise you are moving without resistance."   —Director Peter Voigt

“This film, an impressively wrought photomontage accompanied by the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and the texts by Karl Marx, conveys a convincing message. The film gives testimony to the life and struggle of the working class: images of the present and past, faces of people from all continents, suffering, defiance, organized resistance.”   —Elke Schieber, Film und Fernsehen