Comradeship

Comradeship (1931)

Kameradschaft

At a mine on the shared edge of France and Germany, an underground explosion leads to the entrapment of a group of French miners. In an effort to save the trapped Frenchmen, German miners Wittkopp and Kasper take it upon themselves to traverse a crumbling war tunnel leading down into the mines. Yet, though the workers harbor no political biases against one another, their callous, less tolerant bosses hope to halt this cross-cultural rescue mission.

Date of release
1931-11-17
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (41)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Drama
Director
G.W. Pabst

Casting

Interesting facts

Kameradschaft is a 1931 dramatic film directed by Austrian director G. W. Pabst. The French-German co-production drama is noted for combining expressionism and realism.

Production

Although the scenes which take place inside the mine look extremely real, they were, in fact, sets designed by Erno Metzner and Karl Vollbrecht, who were meticulous about their authenticity and detail. All the scenes involving the mines were done in a converted Hangar in Berlin. This film was funded by Gaumont, a French studio, and Nero-Film, a German studio, making it a Franco-German production.

As with his previous film, Westfront 1918, his first talkie, Pabst did not utilize the soundproof booths which Hollywood studios used to mask the sound of the camera from the microphone, instead employing a sound proof case called a "blimp", which gave the freedom to move the camera around.

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