Details

Release year: 1931

Storyline

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

Top credits

Directors

Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Writers

Cast

Alexander Granach — Kasper
Fritz Kampers — Wilderer
Ernst Busch — Wittkopp
Elisabeth Wendt — Frau Anna Wittkopp

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Did you know

• The print at the British Film Institute is missing the final scene , which may have been deliberately removed by censorship, but is considered by Pabst,s long time editor to have been the most important sequence in the entire film.

• G W Pabst received the French Legion of Honor award for his work on this film.

• Because the dialogue in Kameradschaft was spoken in the two languages of the French and German participants, without subtitles, when it came time to release the film in Paris, instead of, as frequent in the early sound era, shooting a separate language version the editor chose alternate takes of each shot to form a slightly different print, shortening and lengthening several scenes in the process.