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Kameradschaft (1931)
Director: GW Pabst
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From Time Out Film Guide
The absolute high-point of German socialist film-making of its period. Pabst imagines a coal-mine on the French-German border, where the aftermath of World War I is still being played out: French prosperity and chauvinism hard up against German inflation and unemployment. There's a disaster in the French wing of the mine...and the German miners go to the rescue. Both the visual style and the 'message' of solidarity owe a lot to Soviet Socialist Realism, but Pabst was a more sophisticated social critic than any of the Russian film-makers. Only a bruised and cynical Berlin pessimist could produce a film as moving, sincere and committed as this.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: GW Pabst
Producer: Seymour Nebenzal
Cast: Fritz Kampers, Alexander Granach, Ernst Busch, Gustav Püttjer, Daniel Mendaille, Georges Charlia, Pierre Louis, Hélèna Manson full cast
Duration: 93 mins
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