Watch Full Movie Online. Les Travailleurs de la mer is a franco-soviet film directed by Gizo Gabeskiria (Russia) et Edmond Séchan (France). It is an adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1866 novel Les Travailleurs de la mer. It follows the story of a recluse living in the Channel Islands who develops an obsession with the ward of wealthy steam engine enterpreneur Mess Lethierry, his niece Deruchette, in the 1820s.