This is a great film, an early example of fiction filmmaking that is responsive to social and political circumstances, but that doesnt get bogged down in the. Qualifizierte bestellungen werden kostenlos geliefert. Hanns eislers partitur unvergesslich sein solidaritatslied, gesungen in einem berliner sbahntunnel. Kuhle wampe or who owns the world in 85 lists, 228 checks, 19 favorites, 0 dislikes. Kuhle wampe is a montage film which presents social conditions in sharp montages and bullet titles.
Kuhle wampe eli keiden on maailma finnish title on the print. The script was conceived and written by bertolt brecht. Kuhle wampella on saksalaisen elokuvan historiassa erikoisasema. Hanns eisler solidaritatslied aus dem film kuhle wampe. I have just watched this film on a dvd released by the brazilian distributor versatil and i found difficult to understand parts of the narrative. The tribulations of the bonike family during the depression.
The bonike family live in a squalid tenement in berlin in a period when german unemployment has doubled from 2 million to over 5 million. Film in the weimar republic and under national socialism. Hertha thiele, ernst busch, martha wolter, adolf fischer, lili schonborn. Political drama, cowritten by bertolt brecht, which portrayed the life of a working class family in berlin during the economic depression of the early 1930s, including unemployment, suicide, eviction and pregnancy outside marriage. Other title to whom does the world belong format dvd, videodisc publishedproduced amherst, mass. Kuhle wampe 1932 dvd, kuhle wampe 1932 dvd, berthold. Defa film library, university of massachusetts amherst, 2008. With hertha thiele, ernst busch, martha wolter, adolf fischer.
This is followed by scenes of a young man looking for work in the city and the family discussing the unpaid back rent. Kuhle wampe was banned by the nazis on march 23, 1933. The unemployed son commits suicide, his sister anni and the family move to kuhle wampe, a holiday camp outside berlin where many destitute people have moved. Es ist eine mischung aus spiel, dokumentarund propagandafilm, angereichert mit elementen eines musikfilms. The only communist film to come out of weimar germany, kuhle wampe was swiftly banned upon. During great depression, a family is evicted from their apartment and with no other option they move to a tent camp called kuhle wampe. Small town 1950s case study documentary film duration. Volker koepp original prologue, with herbert jhering, 1958. Marta carlson at the hairdressers with brecht and dudow, from a 1981 interview by film historian ralf schenk on kuhle wampe, an essay by film scholar marc. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadilyrising unemployment figures. The young man, brother of the protagonist anni, removes his wristwatch and throws himself from a window out of despair. An seiner erstellung wirkte unter anderem bertolt brecht mit.