Kameradschaft
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| - | ''[[Kameradschaft]]'' (1931) is a film by [[Georg Wilhelm Pabst]]. | + | |
| + | '''''Kameradschaft''''' ({{lang-en|'''Comradeship'''}}, known in France as '''''La Tragédie de la mine''''') is a 1931 dramatic film directed by Austrian director [[G. W. Pabst]]. The [[France|French]]-[[Germany|German]] co-production drama is noted for combining [[expressionism]] and realism. | ||
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| + | The picture concerns a mine disaster where [[Germany|German]] [[miner]]s rescue [[France|French]] miners from an underground fire and explosion. The story takes place in the [[Lorraine (region)|Lorraine]]–[[Saar (League of Nations)|Saar]] regions, along the border between France and Germany. It is based on one of the worst industrial accidents in history, the [[Courrières mine disaster]] in 1906 in [[Courrières]], France, where rescue efforts after a [[coal dust explosion]] were hampered by the lack of trained mine rescuers. Expert teams from [[Paris, France|Paris]] and miners from the Westphalia region of Germany came to the assistance of the French miners. There were 1,099 fatalities, including children. | ||
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| + | ''Kameradschaft'' in [[German language|German]] means a bond between soldiers or those who have similar opinions and are in friendship. The word is similar to [[wiktionary:comradeship|comradeship]], [[wiktionary:camaraderie|camaraderie]] or [[wiktionary:fellowship|fellowship]]. | ||
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| + | ==Plot== | ||
| + | Two boys, one French and the other German, are playing marbles near the border. When the game is over, both boys claim to have won, and complain that the other is trying to steal their marbles. Their fathers, border guards, come and separate the boys. | ||
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| + | In 1919, at the end of [[World War I]] the border changes, and an underground mine is divided, with a gate dividing the two sections. An economic downturn and rising unemployment adds to tension, as German workers seek employment in France but are turned away, since there are hardly enough jobs for French workers. In the French part of the mine fires break out, which they try to contain by building brick walls, with the bricklayers wearing breathing apparatus. The Germans continue to work in their section, but start to feel the heat from the French fires. | ||
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| + | Three German miners visit a French dance hall and one almost provokes a fight when Francoise, a young French woman, refuses to dance with him. The rejected miner thinks it is because he's German, but it is actually because she is tired. She and her boyfriend, Emile, a miner, leave, and she expresses her distress over the stories about fires and explosions in the mine. The next morning, he stops in to say goodbye to her before she leaves for Paris, then he and her brother, Jean, another miner, leave for work. | ||
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| + | The fire gets out of control, igniting gas and causing roof collapses that traps many French miners. In response, the German miner, Wittkopp, appeals successfully to his bosses to send a rescue team. As the German rescue team leave in two lorries, its leader explains to his wife that the French are men with women and children and he would hope that they would come to his aid in similar circumstances. In the mine itself, a trio of German miners breaks through the grille on the border between the two countries. On the French side, an old retired miner sneaks into the shaft hoping to rescue his young grandson. The Germans rescue the French miners, not without difficulties. After all the survivors are rescued, there is a big party with speeches about friendship between the French and Germans. French and German officials then reinstall the underground border grille and things return to the way they were before. | ||
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| + | ==Cast== | ||
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| + | *[[Alexander Granach]] as Kasper | ||
| + | *[[Fritz Kampers]] as Wilderer | ||
| + | *[[Daniel Mendaille]] as Jean Leclerc | ||
| + | *[[Ernst Busch (actor)|Ernst Busch]] as Wittkopp | ||
| + | *[[Elisabeth Wendt]] as Anna Wittkopp | ||
| + | *[[Gustav Püttjer]] as Kaplan | ||
| + | *Oskar Höcker as Mine foreman | ||
| + | *[[Héléna Manson]] as Rose, Albert's wife | ||
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| + | *Andrée Ducret as Françoise Leclerc | ||
| + | *Alex Bernard as Grandfather Jacques, Le Vieux Mineur | ||
| + | *Pierre-Louis as Georges, Jacques's grandson | ||
| + | *Georges Charlia as Emile | ||
| + | *[[Willem Holsboer]] as German mine engineer | ||
| + | *Marcel Lesieur as Albert | ||
| + | *Georges Tourreil as Engineer Vidal | ||
| + | *Fritz Wendhausen as German mine director | ||
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Kameradschaft (Template:Lang-en, known in France as La Tragédie de la mine) 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.
The picture concerns a mine disaster where German miners rescue French miners from an underground fire and explosion. The story takes place in the Lorraine–Saar regions, along the border between France and Germany. It is based on one of the worst industrial accidents in history, the Courrières mine disaster in 1906 in Courrières, France, where rescue efforts after a coal dust explosion were hampered by the lack of trained mine rescuers. Expert teams from Paris and miners from the Westphalia region of Germany came to the assistance of the French miners. There were 1,099 fatalities, including children.
Kameradschaft in German means a bond between soldiers or those who have similar opinions and are in friendship. The word is similar to comradeship, camaraderie or fellowship.
Plot
Two boys, one French and the other German, are playing marbles near the border. When the game is over, both boys claim to have won, and complain that the other is trying to steal their marbles. Their fathers, border guards, come and separate the boys.
In 1919, at the end of World War I the border changes, and an underground mine is divided, with a gate dividing the two sections. An economic downturn and rising unemployment adds to tension, as German workers seek employment in France but are turned away, since there are hardly enough jobs for French workers. In the French part of the mine fires break out, which they try to contain by building brick walls, with the bricklayers wearing breathing apparatus. The Germans continue to work in their section, but start to feel the heat from the French fires.
Three German miners visit a French dance hall and one almost provokes a fight when Francoise, a young French woman, refuses to dance with him. The rejected miner thinks it is because he's German, but it is actually because she is tired. She and her boyfriend, Emile, a miner, leave, and she expresses her distress over the stories about fires and explosions in the mine. The next morning, he stops in to say goodbye to her before she leaves for Paris, then he and her brother, Jean, another miner, leave for work.
The fire gets out of control, igniting gas and causing roof collapses that traps many French miners. In response, the German miner, Wittkopp, appeals successfully to his bosses to send a rescue team. As the German rescue team leave in two lorries, its leader explains to his wife that the French are men with women and children and he would hope that they would come to his aid in similar circumstances. In the mine itself, a trio of German miners breaks through the grille on the border between the two countries. On the French side, an old retired miner sneaks into the shaft hoping to rescue his young grandson. The Germans rescue the French miners, not without difficulties. After all the survivors are rescued, there is a big party with speeches about friendship between the French and Germans. French and German officials then reinstall the underground border grille and things return to the way they were before.
