Brothers (1929)
Brüder
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.
- Date of release
- 1929-04-28
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (10)
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Werner Hochbaum
Casting
- Gyula Balogh — Sohn
- Ilse Berger
- Erna Schumacher — Die alte Mutter
Interesting facts
Brothers is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Werner Hochbaum. The film was shot on location in the dockyards of Hamburg using a mainly amateur cast. Hochbaum was closely associated with the Social Democratic Party at the time and made several films portraying working class conditions.
Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.
Recommended
- In the Aisles 2018 · ★ 6.9
- F.I.S.T. 1978 · ★ 6.5
- Eleanor the Great 2025 · ★ 6.8
- The Nest 2020 · ★ 6.1
- Paula 2016 · ★ 6.3
- Most 2003 · ★ 7.3
- Come Sunday 2018 · ★ 5.8
- Bastard Out of Carolina 1996 · ★ 7.1
- What Maisie Knew 2013 · ★ 7.1
- Goodbye June 2025 · ★ 6.5
- Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything 2023 · ★ 5.8
- Tigertail 2020 · ★ 6.7