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The Workers Cup
Directed by
Adam Sobel
2017
89m
Documentary
,
Sport
6.8
82%
67%
4.0
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Inside Qatar's labor camps, African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities of the 2022 World Cup compete in a football tournament of their own.
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Cast of The Workers Cup
Adam Sobel
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Rosie Garthwaite
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The Workers Cup Ratings & Reviews
Cinema Sentries
Matthew St. Clair
Neither sentimental nor filled with heavy dramatic stakes, The Workers Cup is a straightforward demonstration of why people decide to play sports.
Moveable Fest
Stephen Saito
The clean and sharp simplicity with which Sobel presents such an insidious situation is what gives "The Workers Cup" much of its considerable power, disarming audiences with its personable subjects and casual displays of the daily indignities they face.
People's World
Chauncey K. Robinson
It's a game they are playing to win with passion and heart despite the odds. It's that passion and resilience which center this resonating film.
Film Threat
Lorry Kikta
There are a lot of moments in the film that brought me to the brink of tears.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
The result is a fascinating, and no doubt officially sanctioned, glimpse inside the enormous machinery that makes a World Cup happen.
Film Inquiry
Lee Jutton
I cannot fathom how one could see how migrant workers are being treated and still feel fine with watching the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The Workers Cup ensures that you'll never glory in watching your team lift the trophy in the same way ever again.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
It doesn't cut deep enough emotionally nor does it make you enraged or captivated like it should have given the subject matter.
RogerEbert.com
Nick Allen
A documentary with a defeated spirit, but with fleeting glimmers about why the oppressed keep playing.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
Not an expos, and hardly a case of sports-as-uplift, "The Workers Cup" feels like a toe dip when the topic calls for at least a deep wade.
New York Times
Ken Jaworowski
Sure, it's possible that this...missed a few opportunities to make a point. Yet it's just as likely that this director is letting you reach your own tough conclusions.
Village Voice
Bilge Ebiri
If we choose to pursue these ideas further, we may find ourselves questioning how our allegiance to the adrenal thrills of sports can help hide darker truths about the companies, countries, and organizations we throw our allegiance behind.
Maven's Nest
Nora Lee Mandel
Intimately captures how fantasies of opportunities don't get to square with the realities of building the huge facilities needed...Empathetic, insightful look behind.
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Josh Terry
It is remarkable to see people who can be so happy in the midst of miserable circumstances. That's the inspiring takeaway from The Workers Cup.
Eye for Film
Amber Wilkinson
Sobel doesn't invite us to pity these men but rather to listen to what they have to say.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
It's the kind of piece that could have cut much of its soccer footage and might have worked better as a short.
The Hollywood Reporter
Boyd van Hoeij
Sobel's inexperience with the feature-length format and the requirements of specific genres shows, with Cup constantly struggling to reconcile the horrible fate of what are essentially modern-day slaves with the aspirational side and dreams of victory ...
The Playlist
Andy Crump
An angry paean made to celebrate the blood of the common man.
Variety
Geoff Berkshire
What emerges is a nuanced, if somewhat undernourished, portrait of the poorest inhabitants of the richest country in the world.
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