Westfront 1918 / Kameradschaft (1930) (Blu-ray) (UK-Import mit deutscher Tonspur)

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Country of origin:: Deutschland, 1930
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Item number:: 7204917
UPC/EAN:: 5060000702644
Release date:: 24.7.2017
Series:: Masters of Cinema
Genre:: Drama, Krieg
Playing time ca.:: 186 Min.
Director:: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Actor:: Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessl, Hans Joachim Moebis, Claus Clausen, Gustav Püttjer, Alexander Granach, Ernst Busch, Elisabeth Wendt
Language:: Deutsch
Picture:: 4:3 (s/w)
Subtitles:: Englisch
Specials:: Uncompressed PCM soundtrack for both titles; an introduction by film scholar and author Jan-Christopher Horak; A booklet featuring a new essay by Philip Kemp, alongside rare archival imagery

Georg Wilhelm Pabst (Pandora’s Box, Diary of a Lost Girl) made a flawless transition from silent to sound filmmaking with, Westfront 1918 and Kameradschaft, a pair of strongly anti-war titles (Pabst himself was a prisoner of war for the duration of WWI) that combined elements of Expressionism and New Objectivity to stunning effect.

In Westfront 1918, four infantrymen on the Western Front suffer the everyday hardships and insanity of trench warfare, and in Kameradschaft, a team of German miners risk their lives to rescue a team of French miners left trapped after an underground explosion.

Sharing many thematic elements, as well as key cast and crew (most notably cinematographer Fritz Arno Wagner - M, Nosferatu, Der müde Tod), Westfront 1918 and Kameradschaft represents a master director at the height of his powers, and The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present both these titles for the first time ever on Blu-ray.