Die Weber

The emaciated weavers deliver their homework to the factory owner Dreißiger and receive their wages, on which they cannot live and cannot die. Driven by hunger, they ask for more money, but to no avail. Only the young baker and the reservist Jäger put up a fight, and both manage to encourage a large group of weavers to revolt against the factory owner. They break into his house and destroy it, whereupon he flees. The revolt continues, the weavers move through the surrounding villages, where more people join them. A little later, the military arrives to intervene against the angry crowd and restore the old order...

Country:

East Germany,

Germany

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

69 minutes

Year:

1962

Director:

Hubert Hoelzke

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Company:

Fernsehen der DDR

Cast:
Wolfgang Sasse

Ralph Boettner

Hans Pitra

Rudolf Horn

Walter Richter-Reinick

Crew:
Jean Kurt Forest

Music

Hubert Hoelzke

Director

Gerhart Hauptmann

Writer