Song of the Rivers
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.
00:15:22 Whence come the wars.
00:18:21 We, whose fields disappeared -
00:22:17 When our feast will come.
00:26:48 And the bondage is six thousand years old
00:30:06 We live in different lands, but we have common interests
00:33:36 Workers of Japan.
00:37:10 "I will ask the Chinese how they did it"
00:41:42 All whom we know are there.
00:44:10 "By our work schedule in Italy, we have proven"
00:47:31 Even the German fellow traveler travels to a French village.
00:50:50 One of the largest labor unions of Indonesia - Sogreb - is now WGB.
00:56:54 "The capitol of Korea does not remind you of anything?"
01:01:39 "We must organize ourselves."
01:06:02 France: General Facion, the general of the labor union
01:09:26 Yesterday they owned nothing.
01:14:10 Where it flows, people go happily to work.
01:18:36 From the Elbe to the still ocean, luxury for the workers.
01:24:27 Our Amazon flows unquestionably.
01:29:01 Happy, Mr. Dollars?
01:33:37 Peace is high treason here
01:38:18 Only a dozen? With them is all of black Africa.
45:00:00 at the end of the month.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed635
Dialogue density6.1 lines / min
First line00:00:21
Final line45:00:00
Production Record
DirectorJoop Huisken, Joris Ivens, Robert Ménégoz
LanguageGerman
IMDb votes41