Branding

Breakers

Les Brisants

  • Joris Ivens
  • Mannus Franken
  • 1929
  • The Netherlands
  • 33 minutes
  • silent
  • DR
    DR

“It’s a small film, unpretentions, half documentary half fiction… The hero is an unemployed sailor from Katwijk, who in order to survive, pawned certain objects including his fiancé’s ring. In Katwijk, I became very interested in breakers. How does one photograph them? (…)” (Joris Ivens ou la Mémoire d’un Regard)

  • Production : Capi Films (Amsterdam)
  • Distribution : Capi Films
  • Editing : John Fernhout; Joris Ivens
  • Photography : John Fernhout; Joris Ivens