Song of the Rivers
Directed by Robert Ménégoz, Joop Huisken, Joris Ivens
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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
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- Director
- Robert Ménégoz
- Writer
- Joris Ivens
- Editor
- Ella Ensink
- Director
- Joop Huisken
- Writer
- Vladimir Pozner
- Director
- Joris Ivens
- Director of Photography
- Erich Nitzschmann
- Writer
- Bertolt Brecht
- Writer
- Paul Robeson