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. The original intention was to produce a German and a Russian version directed against the growing Nazi movement. Due to considerable organizational deficits and differences between the film company and the director, only the Russian version could be completed. This was the feature film debut of German director Erwin Piscator.
Anna Seghers (1966)
Not available: Destroyer of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet (1924)
The Port of Murmansk (1928)
Paul Wegener (1932), actor playing Bredel in the canceled German version of the film
Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator was a German theatre director and producer. Along with Bertolt Brecht, he was the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of drama, rather than its emotional manipulation of the audience or the production's formal beauty.
Portrait of Piscator, c. 1929
The Volksbühne Berlin, scene of Piscator's early successes as a stage director in 1924
The Piscator-Bühne in Berlin (1927–29), formerly known as Neues Schauspielhaus
Piscator was theater manager of The Freie Volksbühne Berlin from 1962 until his death.
