Kameradschaft 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 survival. Inspired by a real-life mine collapse, Kameradschaft (Comradeship) is an arresting 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.
Film Info
- Germany
- 1931
- 88 minutes
- Black & White
- 1.19:1
- German, French
- Spine #908
Special Features
- 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with film scholar Hermann Barth on the film’s production
- Interview from 1988 with editor Jean Oser, featuring footage from the French version of the film
- Interview from 2016 with film scholar Jan-Christopher Horak on the historical context of the film
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by author and critic Lucy Sante and the 1930 text by Karl Otten that the film was based on
