Kameradschaft
Comradeship
Comradeship is based on a reconstruction of a pit disaster that occurred in Courrières near the border between France and Germany in 1906.
Fire has broken out in the pit on the French side. The management lacks the modern equipment necessary to fight the fire and rescue the trapped miners. All the facilities are available in the adjacent German pit which has been separated off by an underground fence since 1919. However, the directorate only grants permission to start a rescue mission when it is compelled to do so by the miners. A small group breaks through the underground border fence, while other miners speed across the border in trucks to help their French comrades. The opposing forces are shown in a very dense scene: a trapped French miner sees the Germans coming to help him as the enemy from the first World War instead of as rescuers. The successful rescue work is followed by a dual conclusion: the idealistic prospect of international solidarity among the workers and its realistic disillusionment. The fence separating the German and French mines is repaired and then checked by an official; full of satisfaction, he claims that "no one can get through here now".
Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH
Credits
Director
Screenplay
Director of photography
Editing
Music
Cast
- Kasper
- Wilderer
- Wittkopp
- Jean Leclerc
- Jeans Mutter
- Wittkopps Frau
- Kaplan
- Alberts Frau
- Obersteiger
- Françoise Leclerc
Production company
Producer
Alle Credits
Director
Assistant director
Screenplay
Dialogue
Story
Director of photography
2nd Camera unit
Still photography
Production design
Make-up artist
Editing
Sound
Music
Cast
- Kasper
- Wilderer
- Wittkopp
- Jean Leclerc
- Jeans Mutter
- Wittkopps Frau
- Kaplan
- Alberts Frau
- Obersteiger
- Françoise Leclerc
- Großvater Jacques
- Jacques Enkel Georges
- Emile
- Albert
- Direktor der deutschen Grube
- Ingenieur der deutschen Grube
- Zollbeamter
- Türsteher des Cafés - ungenannt
- ?
- ?
Production company
Producer
Unit production manager
Location manager
Original distributor
Shoot
- Juni 1931 - September 1931: Gelsenkirchen (Gruben Hibernia, Alma und Consol, Gaststätte "Zum Tiergarten"), Noux-le-Mines,
Zensur (DE): 16.11.1931, B.30393, Jugendfrei
Uraufführung (DE): 17.11.1931, Berlin, Capitol;
Erstaufführung (FR): 29.01.1932, Paris, Gaumont-Palace;
TV-Erstsendung (DD): 18.08.1958, DFF;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 18.12.1965, ARD
Titles
- Originaltitel (DE) Kameradschaft
- Originaltitel (FR) La tragédie de la mine
- Arbeitstitel Kameradschaft Sohle VI
- Arbeitstitel Grubentragödie
- Weiterer Titel Kameradschaft (Digital restaurierte Fassung 2015)
Versions
Original
Zensur (DE): 16.11.1931, B.30393, Jugendfrei
Uraufführung (DE): 17.11.1931, Berlin, Capitol;
Erstaufführung (FR): 29.01.1932, Paris, Gaumont-Palace;
TV-Erstsendung (DD): 18.08.1958, DFF;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 18.12.1965, ARD
Formatfassung
- Kameradschaft (Digital restaurierte Fassung 2015)
Aufführung (DE): 17.02.2018, Berlin, IFF - Retrospektive