Netz über Bord – Heringsfang auf der Nordsee (1955)
- Directed by
- Jürgen Roland
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Germany
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A 1950s documentary shows old-style herring fishermen working the North Sea. It records their daily labor before large trawlers took over.
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What happens
Netz über Bord – Heringsfang auf der Nordsee (Net on board – herring fishing on the North Sea), is a 1955 German documentary about the herring fishing industry written and directed by Jürgen Roland. Jürgen Roland and Carsten Diercks documented fishermen's hard work on the waters of the North Sea when the era of traditional fishing was coming to an end, just before the arrival of the big trawlers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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