Kameradschaft / directed by G.W. Pabst ; screenplay by Ladislaus Vajda, Peter Martin Lempel, Herbert Rappaport, Karl Otten, Anna Gmeyner ; produced by Seymour Nebenzal.
Edition:
Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages : black and white illustrations ; 17 cm)
Film lacks title screen and credits. Title and statement of responsibility from accompanying booklet. Alexander Granach, Fritz Kampers, Daniel Mendaille, Ernst Busch, Elisabeth Wendt, Gustav Püttjer, Oskar Höcker, Héléna Manson, Andrée Ducret, Alex Bernard, Pierre-Louis, Georges Charlia, Georges Tourreil, Marcel Lesieur, Marguerite Debos, Fritz Wendhausen. Originally released as a motion picture in 1931. 2K digital restoration. Full screen (1.19:1). Special features: New interview with film scholar Hermann Barth on the film's production; 1988 interview with Jean Oser, featuring footage from the French version of the film; 2016 interview with film scholar Jan-Christopher Horak on the historical context of the film. Booklet contains an essay, "War is over (if you want it)" by Luc Sante and an essay, "Courrières" by Karl Otten.
Summary:
Set in 1919 but based on a real incident from 1906. A coal mine collapses on the frontier between Germany and France, trapping a team of French miners inside. Workers on both sides of the border spring into action, putting aside national prejudices and wartime grudges to launch a dangerous rescue operation.
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