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Brothers (1929)

Brothers (1929)

Drama
Release Date: 1929, April 28
Directors: Werner Hochbaum
Countries: Germany
Production: Werner Hochbaum Filmproduktion, Werner Hochbaum Filmproduktion
Cast: Gyula Balogh, Erna Schumacher

Overview:

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.