Song of the Rivers

Year: 1954

Runtime: 104 mins

Language: German

Directors: Joris Ivens, Robert Ménégoz

Documentary

An allegorical documentary that follows laborers across the globe, linking their shared hopes for peace through the rivers that cross their lands. Filmed on the Volga, Mississippi, Nile, Yangtze, Amazon and Ganges, the film weaves continental scenery with Dmitri Shostakovich’s music and the poetry of Bertolt Brecht and Paul Robeson.

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