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Wigwam (Shining Ray) The Bridge Breakers Rain We Are Building Philips Radio Creosote Komsomol (Song of Heroes) New Earth Borinage The Spanish Earth The 400 Million Power and the Land Indonesia Calling The First Years Song of the Rivers The Seine Meets Paris Before Spring Italy Is Not a Poor Country Travel Notebook A Valparaiso The Mistral Pour le Mistral Far from Vietnam The 17th Parallel How Yukong Moved the Mountains A Tale of the Wind Magnitogorsk, Forging the New Man		Breakers Branding 1929 / The Netherlands / silent / B&W / 33 min / 35mm Directors: Mannus Franken, Joris Ivens Script: Jef Last Camera, Editor: Joris Ivens Production company: CAPI Amsterdam Breakers is a tragic love story, shot in Katwijk, a village on the Dutch coast. A fisherman loses his job and turns to a pawnbroker for assistance. In addition to losing his money to the pawnbroker he also loses his fiancŽe to the same man. Deprived of his love and his work he decides to leave his village for the sea. Although the main credits for the direction of this film must go to Mannus Franken, this film is, apart from Wigwam (1912), Ivens's only fiction work. This film, which dates from early in his career, shows that fiction is not Ivens's strong suit. A thin story line is somewhat redeemed by occasionally beautiful photography - especially in the final sequence, for which Ivens placed his camera in a rubber sack with a glass front to film the turbulent movement of the sea, from amidst the breakers. A TOPICS A Bird's Eye View of a Documentary Career HELEN VAN DONGEN Kees Bakker beforenext COPYRIGHT:Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Organizing Committee