Rent Kuhle Wampe (1932)
3.4 of 5 from 51 ratings
1h 15min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- At the height of the Depression, Anni (Herta Thiele) and her family are evicted from their Berlin apartment and forced to move in with her boyfriend, Fritz (Ernst Busch), at Kuhle Wampe, a lakeside camp on the outskirts of Berlin that now accommodates the ever-growing numbers of the dispossessed.
- Actors:
- Hertha Thiele, Ernst Busch, Martha Wolter, Adolf Fischer, Lili Schoenborn-Anspach, Max Sablotzki, Alfred Schaefer, Gerhard Bienert, Martha Burchardi, Carl Heinz Charrell, Helene Weigel, Karl Kahmen, Fritz Erpenbeck, Josef Hanoszek, Richard Pilgert, Hugo Werner-Kahle, Hermann Krehan, Paul Kretzburg, Anna Müller-Lincke, Rudolf Pehls
- Directors:
- Slatan Dudow
- Producers:
- Willi Münzenberg, Lazar Wechsler
- Voiced By:
- Helene Weigel
- Writers:
- Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Ottwald
- Aka:
- Who Owns the World? / Kuhle Wampe oder: Wem gehört die Welt?
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
- Collections:
- All the Twos: 1902-62
- Countries:
- Germany
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 19/09/2022
- Run Time:
- 75 minutes
- Languages:
- German LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.19:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Newly commissioned commentary by film scholar Adrian Martin (2022)
- Introduction and Q&A by Andrew Hoellering (1999, 36 mins + 14 mins): the writer discusses his father's work on Kuhle Wampe
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