Brothers

Brüder a film directed by Herr Werner Hochbaum who was a remarkable film director in the talkie 30s 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