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During the 1920s, Germany was one of the most important and innovative filmmaking countries in the world. In the few years before Hitler and Ministry of Propaganda head Joseph Goebbels destroyed German film culture in 1933, many of the country's creatives produced their most daring work. These progressive films, all made between 1930 and 1933, flew in the face of Nazi ideology.
On this night, we will be watching G.W. Pabst's 1931 film "Comradeship" starring an ensemble cast of both German and French actors.
At a mine on the shared edge of France and Germany, an underground explosion leads to the entrapment of a group of French miners. In an effort to save the trapped Frenchmen, German miners Wittkopp and Kasper take it upon themselves to traverse a crumbling war tunnel leading down into the mines. Yet, though the workers harbor no political biases against one another, their callous, less tolerant bosses hope to halt this cross-cultural rescue mission.
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