Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?
Kuhle Wampe oder Wem gehört die Welt?, GER 1932, directed by Slatan Dudow, 71 min, English subtitles, rated: 12
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. Suffering from unemployment and social destitution, father Bönike moves with his wife, daughter Anni and her boyfriend Fritz to the garden allotment Kuhle Wampe. While Anni’s parents accept their lot, Anni becomes involved in politics and actively demands social change with her friends in the communist youth brigade.
The film was extensively restored and digitized by the Deutsche Kinemathek in 2020.
Featuring: Hertha Thiele, Ernst Busch, Martha Wolter, Adolf Fischer, Lilli Schoenborn, Max Sablotzki