Brothers (1929)
1h 18m
Running Time
April 28, 1929Release Date
Brothers (1929)
1h 18m
Running Time
April 28, 1929Release Date
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Plot.
“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.
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Cast & Crew.
Gyula Balogh
Die Sohn
Erna Schumacher
Die alte Mutter
Ilse Berger
Kind
Werner Hochbaum
Director
Nina Goslar
Producer
Gustav Berger
Cinematographer
Media.
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Wiki.
Brothers (German: Brüder) 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.