Bitter Grapes – Slavery in the Vineyards

In just ten years, imports of South African wine to Denmark increased by more than 78%. This daring documentary exposes how consumers are duped by different labelling systems that conceal practices of modern-day slavery and severe crimes against the environment: Pesticides are used without protection. Unions are denied access to their members, while the workers’ houses are falling apart. Twenty-two years after the end of apartheid, Westerners raise their glasses in a toast, while employers continue their profitable business by claiming farm workers as “the property.”
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Script: Tom Heinemann
Cinematography: Lotte la Cour
Editing: Henrik Fleischer
Sound: Jan Olsen
Music: Rishi
Production: Heinemann Media
Producers: Tom Heinemann
Narration: David Bateson, Anne Haubek
Format: Color
Production Country: Denmark
Production Year: 2016
Duration: 57
Contact: DR International Sales kimc@dr.dk

Tom Heinemann

Filmography

(selected)
2009 Flip The Coin – A Tower of Promises
2011 The Micro Debt
2013 The Carbon Crooks
2016 A Heart That Never Dies (co-direction: Erling Borgen)
2016 Bitre Druer – Slaveri i vinmarken | Bitter Grapes – Slavery in the Vineyards