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The Revolt of the Fishermen (Russian Восстание рыбаков, Wosstanije rybakow) is a feature film and early sound film based on the novel Revolt of the Fishermen of Santa Barbara by Anna Seghers, which was made between 1931 and 1934 on behalf of the German-Russian Mezhrabpomfilm company in the Soviet Union. The original intention ...
Deep-sea fishermen rise up against the entrepreneurs and the buyers, because they want higher wages for their hard and difficult work. Expressive pictures of wretched life in a fishing village, with a shabby pub as a centre of communication.
This film covers the story of the fishermen’s strike in Hull over Easter 1935. It was made by the Film and Photograph League, a group of filmmakers who aimed to record events – from a working class perspective - which were rarely covered by the commercial newsreels.
Revolt of the Fishermen (1925, dir. Erwin Piscator) was based on the 1929 novella by Anna Seghers. When the fishermen of Santa Barbara demand a better wage scale and a larger share of their catch, outsiders are brought in by the shipowners in a successful attempt to break the strike.
With Aleksei Dikij, Dmitri Konsovsky, Nikolai Gladkov, Nikolay Livanov. Sailors working on the trawlers of the German shipowner Bredel go on a strike. A revolutionary trade union sends the sailor-communist of Hull in a fishing settlement, to heave up fishermen on a pathetic strike.
The Revolt of the Fishermen is a feature film and early sound film based on the novel Revolt of the Fishermen of Santa Barbara by Anna Seghers, which was made between 1931 and 1934 on behalf of the German-Russian Mezhrabpomfilm company in the Soviet Union.
Sailors working on the trawlers of the German shipowner Bredel go on a strike. A revolutionary trade union sends the sailor-communist of Hull in a fishing settlement, to heave up fishermen on a pathetic strike. Trying to prevent to the association of sailors and fishermen, Bredel promises to the fishermen to increase paying for a catch. But it turns out soon, that the promised raise is deception.
