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.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Werner Hochbaum Filmproduktion
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Top Cast
Gyula Balogh as Sohn
Ilse Berger as
Erna Schumacher as Die alte Mutter
Top Crew
Werner Hochbaum · Director, Writer
Gustav Berger · Cinematographer
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