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The Revolt of the Fishermen deals with a strike among the impoverished deep-sea fishermen and sailors of the coastal town of Port Sebastian (also: San Sebastian), which is triggered by deteriorating working conditions on the ships of the shipowner Bredel.
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.
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.
The plot narrates about the strike among the impoverished fishermen of the San Sebastian city, caused by the deterioration of working conditions on the vessels of the ship owner Bredel, and its subsequent severe suppression by government troops.
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- Erwin Piscator
Revolt of the Fishermen is a film directed by Erwin Piscator with Aleksei Dikij, Dmitri Konsovsky, Nikolai Gladkov, N. Izvolski .... Year: 1934. Original title: Vosstaniye rybakov.
THE REVOLT OF THE FISHERMEN. JUNE 1930 H. Faulkner West. By ANNA SEGHERS, Longmans, Green andCompany, New York. 1930. This novel, which won the Kleist prize in Germany for 1929, is a book for the reader who likes his fiction straight. Miss Segher's pen has been steeped in the gall of pure realism.
