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Synopsis. Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures. This is followed by scenes of a young man looking for work in the city and the family discussing the unpaid back rent. The young man, brother of the protagonist Anni, removes his ...
- 74 Min.
This classic proletarian film is an appeal for solidarity among workers to actively shape and change the world. Directed by Slatan Dudow and based on a screenplay by Bertolt Brecht and Ernst Ottwalt, the story of a Berlin working-class family in the early 1930s is told through starkly contrasting montages of image and sound with music by Hanns Eisler.
Kuhle Wampe, or Who Owns the World? ( Kuhle Wampe, oder Wem gehört die Welt?), made in 1932, is one of the fruits of the Weimar era of German cinema, which produced some distinctly provocative films to say the least. It was subject to censorship at the time, and was banned by the Nazis in 1933. While it has been restored, some scenes cut by ...
Directed by. Slatan Dudow. Germany, 1932. Drama. 75. Synopsis. At the height of the Great Depression, Anni’s brother commits suicide. Anni and her parents are evicted from their Berlin home and sent to Kuhle Wampe, a lakeside camp home to increasing numbers of unemployed. Eventually, Anni moves back to Berlin and gets involved in the workers ...
By Marc Silberman, Professor of German University of Wisconsin-Madison. While the early Weimar cinema evolved innovative visual, narrational, and technological effects to depict the volatile social relations of the period, Kuhle Wampe, or Who Owns the World? marks a more radical, overtly politicized appeal to the spectator in the context of ...
Critics reviews. At the height of the Great Depression, Anni’s brother commits suicide. Anni and her parents are evicted from their Berlin home and sent to Kuhle Wampe, a lakeside camp home to increasing numbers of unemployed. Eventually, Anni moves back to Berlin and gets involved in the workers’ youth movement.
Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures. This is followed by scenes of a young man looking for work in the city and the family discussing the unpaid back rent. The young man, brother of the protagonist Anni, removes his wristwatch and throws himself from a window out of despair. Shortly ...
