Comradeship

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Comradeship

1931,

1h 33m,

Drama

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German miners rescue their French counterparts after a mine collapse.

PJ Nabarro

Little White Lies

Oct 30, 2018

5/5

Pabst's staggering ode to international co-operation, and the perils of rampant nationalism.

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Andor Kraszna-Krausz

Close Up

Jan 14, 2021

The scenes of the catastrophe and rescue which take up two thirds of the action, are full of the most complicated, subtle and effective shots ever made in a German studio.

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Aug 26, 2020

3.5/5

Comradeship remains a hopeful and progressive testament on solidarity from the revered Pabst.

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Pare Lorentz

Vanity Fair

May 21, 2019

Comradeship becomes a dull business simply because the disaster, the rescue, the beautiful pictures are all shoved into a concluding moral.

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Eric Melin

Scene-Stealers.com

May 11, 2018

3/4

A mix of elaborate studio sets and location shooting give the movie a naturalistic flavor but lots of camera movement also marks it as expressionistic. The lack of a score also marks it as less manipulative than traditional Hollywood pictures of the day.

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James Kendrick

Q Network Film Desk

Feb 5, 2018

3.5/4

benefits substantially from Pabst's intense focus on realism, both physically and psychologically

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Finn S

Sep 12, 2017

Another pacifist movie from G.W. Pabst following his 'Westfront 1918'. This movie looks so real, studio built mine is so believable and all this is made without cgi; it makes you wonder. Direction is exceptional, camerawork outstanding: all these tracking shots and long shots add to the ultra-realism of the movie. It's like the camera is observing rather than intruding or conditioning the action. The harrowing consequences of the tragedy are reminiscent of the horrors of WW1 which the most part of miners no doubt experienced. The dirt, gas, water, darkness, fog, debris, sometimes it looks like ruins of a dugout or bombed out trenches. At one point a french miner going crazy thinks he's on a battlefield fighting the Germans. The main message of the movie is obvious: nations should unite in their struggle for a better life without wars, quarrels and misunderstandings. All the more the ending leaves you with a bitter taste in its cynical depiction of a horrible reality.

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Synopsis

German miners rescue their French counterparts after a mine collapse.

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Producer: Seymour Nebenzal
Screenwriter: Gerbert Rappaport, Ladislaus Vajda, Peter Martin Lampel, Karl Otten
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Canadian French
Runtime: 1h 33m

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