Brothers (1929)

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.

Released

1929-04-28

Genres

Drama

Runtime

78 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Werner Hochbaum

TMDB rating

6.2/10 from 10 votes