Tugboat M 17 (1933)

Original title

Schleppzug M 17

Directed by

Heinrich George, Werner Hochbaum

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 17m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This German drama follows the crew and passengers of a tugboat working Berlin's inland waterways. It shows the hard daily routines and personal struggles of people living and working on the boat.

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What happens

Tugboat M 17 (German: Schleppzug M 17) is a 1933 German drama film directed by Heinrich George and Werner Hochbaum and starring Heinrich George, Berta Drews and Betty Amann. George, a prominent actor, directed much of the film before it was finished by Hochbaum. Location filming took place on the Ruppiner See. It portrays life on a boat on Germany's inland waterways in the vicinity of Berlin. It premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo on 19 April 1933. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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