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28. Feb. 2000 · Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (Kuhle Wampe oder: Wem gehört die Welt?) Screening on Film. Directed by Slatan Dudow. With Hertha Thiele, Ernst Busch, Adolf Fischer. Germany, 1932, 16mm, black & white, 90 min. German with English subtitles. Share. Directed by a Bulgarian who had studied Eisenstein’s editing and typage, based on an ...
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.
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 ...
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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 ...
