Song of the Rivers

Name: Song of the Rivers
Director: Joop Huisken, Joris Ivens, Robert Ménégoz
Released: 1954
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Alex McCrindle, Ernst Busch, Paul Robeson, Sérgio Vasconcelos, John Foster Dulles

1954 · 104 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 41 VOTES · DIR. Joop Huisken, Joris Ivens, Robert Ménégoz

Overview

An allegorical documentary about the workers of the world, whose common destinies and hopes for peace are symbolically united by the rivers that run through their respective lands. The film was shot on the Volga, the Mississippi, the Nile, the Yangtze, the Amazon and the Ganges and combines these images of five continents with the music of Dmitri Shostakovich and the poetry of both Bertolt Brecht and Paul Robeson.

Dialogue Timeline — 635 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:21 Before the film begins, the American workers' greatest singer will sing

00:11:11 The human being alone is cheap.

00:15:18 Wall Street - that is where the gold goes.

00:18:17 year after year, straight to hell.

00:22:08 And watered the valley

00:26:40 Our Nile flows in Egypt

00:29:47 Listen to the World Federation of Trade Unions (WGB), friends!

00:33:14 The general secretary of the Indian labor union Gange.

00:36:30 "I will say at the convention there is no longer a problem"

00:40:45 79 countries, more than 80 million workers.

00:43:31 They call for them to unite in the battle against their vital interests

00:46:55 The workers recognize by their hands

00:50:07 listens to each with the same attentiveness.

00:56:03 "Even stronger than North American United Fruit."

01:00:15 All together!

01:04:26 in Greece, in Turkey, in Spain.

01:08:09 who have soaked your land with your sweat, as if it were not your own.

01:13:01 carrying tractors from Stalingrad into the country like a toy.

01:16:34 Poland.

01:21:44 Here they do things together.

01:26:13 The Amazon.

01:32:22 The labor union leaders of France and the GDR

01:36:54 The management forced to take on work again.

01:40:03 Workers, it is enough that you want it.

Cast & Characters

Alex McCrindle Narrator (English version) Ernst Busch Self (2020) Paul Robeson Voice of Singer Sérgio Vasconcelos Narrator (brazilian segment) John Foster Dulles Self (in Washington) Zedong Mao Self (with labourers) Walter Ulbricht Self (at rally opposing West German rearmament)

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed635

Dialogue density6.1 lines / min

First line00:00:21

Final line01:40:03

Production Record

DirectorJoop Huisken, Joris Ivens, Robert Ménégoz

LanguageGerman

IMDb votes41