Synopsis
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.
Brothers (1929) is a 1h 18min drama feature film by Werner Hochbaum. The film depicts, in a kind of fictional documentary, the 1896 Hamburg dockworkers' strike: the workers receive meagr... Selected for Bolton International Film Festival (2022).
Facts
Setting
Hamburg
Original language
German
Stills
Festival History
- Bolton International Film Festival 2022
- Berlin International Film Festival 2018 generic
