Kameradschaft

A film of major artistic and social significance, G. W. Pabst’s Kameradschaft is both a daring experiment in realistic sound cinema and a deeply moving assertion of international working-class solidarity. Based on a true incident, the film depicts a mining disaster on the Franco-German border in 1919, where German miners come to the rescue of their entombed French brothers—wartime enmities and the interests of the bosses to the contrary. “Pabst’s style is sober, restrained and quasi-documentary in approach. There is no musical background, but Pabst’s use of natural sounds is very expressive” (Georges Sadoul, Dictionary of Films).