This stirring plea for peace and internationalism was the highpoint of German socialist filmmaking of its period. KAMERADSCHAFT, a German-French co-production set in the Lorraine mining region on the French-German border in the aftermath of WWI, was inspired by an actual 1906 mining
disaster that claimed 1,200 lives.
Combining elements of classic German expressionism and and Soviet Socialist realism, German director G.W. Pabst (STREET OF SORROW, PANDORA'S BOX, THE THREEPENNY OPERA) introduces the viewer to the German and French miners. Separated by mine walls and metal bars below and by armed border patrols
above, they have little contact with one another. But ...
Released:
1931
Rated:
NR
Length:
93 mins