#908: PABST, G.W.: Kameradschaft (1931)
PABST, G.W. (Germany)
Kameradschaft [1931]
Spine #908
Blu-ray
The Booklet
Twenty-eight page booklet featuring an essay by author and critic Luc Sante and the 1930 text by Otten that the film was based on.
Commentary
None.
Interview 1
With film scholar Hermann Barth on the film’s production.
Interview 2
From 1988 with editor Jean Oser, featuring footage from the French version of the film.
Interview 3
From 2016 with film scholar Jan-Christopher Horak on the historical context of the film.
Extras Rating (0-40):
Kameradschaft [1931]
Spine #908
Blu-ray
When a coal mine collapses on the frontier between Germany and France and traps a team of French miners, workers on both sides of the border spring into action, putting aside national prejudices and wartime grudges to launch a dangerous rescue operation. Director G.W. Pabst brings a vivid sense of claustrophobia to this ticking-clock scenario, using realistic sets and sound design to create the maze of soot-choked shafts where the miners struggle for suvival. Inspired by a real-life mine collapse, Kameradschaft (Comradeship) is an arrresting disaster film and a stirring plea for international cooperation, and it cemented Pabst's status as one of the most morally engaged and formally dexterous filmmakers of his time.
88 minutes
Black & White
Monaural
in German and French
1:19:1 aspect ratio
Monaural
in German and French
1:19:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2018
Director/Writers
From the story by Karl Otten.
French dialogue by Léon Werth.
Screenplay by Ladislaus Vajda, Peter Martin Lampel, Herbert Rappaport, and Otten.
G.W. Pabst was 46 when he directed Kameradschaft.
Other Pabst films in the Collection:
#358: Pandora's Box (1929)
#907: Westfront 1918 (1930)
#405: The Threepenny Opera (1931)
The Film
Other Pabst films in the Collection:
#358: Pandora's Box (1929)
#907: Westfront 1918 (1930)
#405: The Threepenny Opera (1931)
The Film
A
Film Rating (0-60):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Twenty-eight page booklet featuring an essay by author and critic Luc Sante and the 1930 text by Otten that the film was based on.
Commentary
None.
Interview 1
With film scholar Hermann Barth on the film’s production.
Interview 2
From 1988 with editor Jean Oser, featuring footage from the French version of the film.
Interview 3
From 2016 with film scholar Jan-Christopher Horak on the historical context of the film.
Extras Rating (0-40):
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