(Brüder)

Content: “Brüder”, a film directed by Herr Werner Hochbaum ( who was a remarkable film director in the talkie 30’s ), was one of those films which showed the harsh daily life of the working class. The film depicts, in a kind of fictional documentary, the 1896 Hamburg dockworkers' strike: the workers receive meagre wages for hard work and live under miserable conditions and finally go on strike (to make matters more personal, one of the strikers has a brother who is a policeman). Even though the inspiration for the story was an event that took place in the XIX century, things had little changed by the troublesome twenties so the story had a perfect contemporary ring.

Countries:

Germany

Genres:

Drama

Runtime:

78 minutes

Year:

1929

Directors:

Werner Hochbaum

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Production companies:

Werner Hochbaum Filmproduktion

Actors:

Sohn

Die alte Mutter

Crews:

Director

Writer

Director of Photography