Comradeship (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Camaraderie |
| Country of production | Germany , France |
| original language | German , French |
| Publishing year | 1931 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Georg Wilhelm Pabst |
| script |
Karl Otten , Ladislaus Vajda Peter Martin Lampel Léon Werth (French dialogues) |
| production | Seymour minor number |
| music | G. v. Rigellius |
| camera | Fritz Arno Wagner , Robert Baberske |
| cut | Hans Oser |
| occupation | |
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Kameradschaft is a Franco-German feature film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst from 1931. In France, the film was shown in cinemas under the title La Tragédie de la mine .
action
In the mining area on the German-French border, the interpersonal climate is still poisoned more than ten years after the First World War. The children of German and French customs officers play either together marble , but in deciding who won the game, it comes like adults to battle. Kasper and his friends cross the border at the weekend to have fun in a French pub, but not only the different languages lead to misunderstandings, the hostility is constantly noticeable.
The next day there is a serious mine accident in the French Thibault colliery . More than 600 miners are buried. On the German side, the miners are just returning from the morning shift when they hear of the accident. Wittkopp can convince the German pals that they have to show solidarity with the French pals. He puts together a rescue team and receives permission from the management to go to France to help there. Under the command of the Obersteigers, they drive their trucks across the border and do not allow themselves to be stopped by the customs officers, who were informed too late.
Kasper starts the late shift with his friends at the same time and drives underground. His friend Poacher had been turned away from the dance by the French girl Françoise the day before and does not speak well to the French. However, when Kasper leaves his workplace underground and searches the tunnel towards the French border, poachers also follow him. You tear down the fence and can save the grandfather Jacques, who found his grandson earlier. They are in a stable for the pit horses when this tunnel collapses. Now Kasper and his friends are buried too. The rescue work has now ended. Since nobody knows about Kasper, they are discovered by accident on the pit telephone and also saved. The rescue operations end with a fraternization party between the French and German pals. They still don't understand each other's language, but they are aware of their common ground as miners and promise to stick together for the future and not to let the politicians rush them into a new war between Germany and France. The customs officials, however, repair the torn border grid underground.
background
The shooting of this political miners film took place between June and September 1931 in Gelsenkirchen in the collieries of Hibernia , Alma and Consol . Ernő Metzner and Karl Vollbrecht were responsible for the construction of the film . The first performance of the film was on November 17, 1931 in the Berlin Capitol Theater. Comradeship was not commercially successful; it only brought in about a third of its production costs.
Reviews
“As is well known, the nerofilm 'Kameradschaft' deals with the terrible mining disaster at Courrières and deals with the nonsense of all demarcations using the example of this catastrophe. [...] “I don't want to call what we've done reportage; the word 'Wochenschau' would be more appropriate! ”[,] says Pabst. His actors Alexander Granach, Ernst Busch and Fritz Kampers actually worked together with real buddies in the mine when this film was made. But even these exponents of the crowd are not actual actors who suffer an individual fate, but only participants, companions of all sufferers. "
“A documentary-style film with equally virtuoso and realistic recordings of the working conditions underground; a gripping testimony of humanity that unites people. "
literature
- Comradeship / La tragédie de la mine . Screenplay by Ladislaus Vajda, Karl Otten, Peter Martin Lampel based on an idea by Karl Otten for GW Pabst's 1931 film. With essays and materials on the film by Hermann Barth, Helga Belach, Wolfgang Jacobsen and Heike Klapdor. Munich: edition text + kritik 1997 (FILMtext), 196 pages. ISBN 3-88377-547-9
- Christiane Mückenberger comradeship . In Günther Dahlke, Günther Karl (Hrsg.): German feature films from the beginnings to 1933. A film guide. Henschel Verlag, 2nd edition, Berlin 1993, pp. 274 ff. ISBN 3-89487-009-5
Web links
- Camaraderie in the Internet Movie Database (English)