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Comradeship

Original title: Kameradschaft
  • 1931
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 33m
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7.5/10
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Comradeship (1931)
Drama

Plea against war and for friendship between peoples, through the story of French miners rescued by German colleagues after a firedamp explosion.Plea against war and for friendship between peoples, through the story of French miners rescued by German colleagues after a firedamp explosion.Plea against war and for friendship between peoples, through the story of French miners rescued by German colleagues after a firedamp explosion.

  • Director
    • Georg Wilhelm Pabst
  • Writers
    • Anna Gmeyner
    • Carl Haensel
    • Peter Martin Lampel
  • Stars
    • Alexander Granach
    • Fritz Kampers
    • Ernst Busch
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.5/10
    1.7K
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    • Director
      • Georg Wilhelm Pabst
    • Writers
      • Anna Gmeyner
      • Carl Haensel
      • Peter Martin Lampel
    • Stars
      • Alexander Granach
      • Fritz Kampers
      • Ernst Busch
    • 18User reviews
    • 33Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 1 nomination

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    Alexander Granach
    Alexander Granach
    • Kasper
    Fritz Kampers
    Fritz Kampers
    • Wilderer
    Ernst Busch
    Ernst Busch
    • Wittkopp
    Elisabeth Wendt
    Elisabeth Wendt
    • Frau Anna Wittkopp
    Gustav Püttjer
    • Kaplan
    Oskar Höcker
    • Obersteiger
    Daniel Mendaille
    Daniel Mendaille
    • Jean Leclerc
    Georges Charlia
    Georges Charlia
    • Emile
    Andrée Ducret
    • Françoise
    Alex Bernard
    Alex Bernard
    • Grand-père, le vieux mineur
    Pierre-Louis
    • Georges - le petit galibot
    Héléna Manson
    Héléna Manson
    • Rose, la femme du mineur blessé
    Marcel Lesieur
    • Albert
    Willem Holsboer
    • Ingenieur des deutschen Bergwerks
    • (as Willem Holzboer)
    Georges Tourreil
    • L'ingénieur
    Palmyre Levasseur
    Teddy Michaud
    Rortais
    • Director
      • Georg Wilhelm Pabst
    • Writers
      • Anna Gmeyner(uncredited)
      • Carl Haensel
      • Peter Martin Lampel
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    • Trivia
      The movie was filmed in the narrow transitional sound ratio of 1.20-1, but, at least in the case of the Janus video release telecast on Turner Classic Movies, has been converted to the standard 1.37-1 ratio with the result that the players' heads are cut off either partially or completely in many of the key scenes. In the final sequence, the heads of the speakers are completely cut off.
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      Featured in Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995)

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    9/10
    Old school story with universal appeal
    Those French and those Germans sure have a long history of not liking each other. It is interesting to note that Kamerdaschaft or Comradeship in translation takes place in 1931. Only a few years later, Hitler would siege Germany and begin his plans to take over the world, France being a casualty of his ambitions. But these are times of sereneness compared to the future. A group of miners at the border try to cross over to France to get work. They are spurned back and later at a nightclub by their French neighbors. Then a disaster happens in the mines of the French and a well-crafted and written scene, a troupe of German miners decide to come to the rescue. A simple story is it not? Pabst was a poet of silent cinema and I am not sure if this is his first sound movie or not, but his poetry is there to be discovered. He isn't fussy but brings a rugged realism to the ordeal. Ther is even a flashback to a WWII event that beckons the point of this story. Supposedly based on a real event, the movie does the events proudly with directness and terseness. Smetimes, that's what a movie needs to be.
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    • Release date
      • November 17, 1931 (Germany)
    • Countries of origin
      • Germany
      • France
    • Languages
      • French
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Rudnik u plamenu
    • Filming locations
      • Bethune, France
    • Production companies
      • Nero-Film AG
      • Gaumont-Franco Film-Aubert (G.F.F.A)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 33 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.20 : 1

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