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Kameradschaft (1931) -- (Movie Clip) As Long As There's No Gas The first scene underground, director G.W. Pabst in what looks very like a coal mine but really was a built set, starts with the workers on the German side then crosses the wall to the French, where there's a persistent fire, in Kameradschaft (a.k.a. Comradeship), 1931.
Kameradschaft (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Fire In The Hole French Francoise (Andree Ducret) is leaving on the train from the coal town on the German border, having decided she can't marry her miner boyfriend, when director G.W. Pabst goes underground for a remarkable early-sound action scene, in Kameradschaft (a.k.a. Comradeship), 1931.
Kameradschaft (1931) -- (Movie Clip) A Miner's A Miner After an explosion on the French side of a coal mine along the border, director G.W. Pabst's first scene on the German side, in an enormous industrial locker room, Ernst Busch as "Wittkopp" advocating for joining the rescue effort, in Kameradschaft (a.k.a. Comradeship), 1931.
Westfront 1918 (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Trouble With The Prussians Director G.W. Pabst's opening, German soldiers in France, knowing their war is lost already, still partying, Fritz Kampers as Bruno, Hans Moebus "The Student," Jackie Monnier the French girl and Karl (Gustav Diessl) sort of commanding, in Westfront 1918 , 1930.
Westfront 1918 (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Our Own Artillery Rousted from their underground bunks by midnight shelling, German soldiers including bulky Fritz Kampers as "The Bavarian,", Gustav Diessl as Karl, Hans Moebus as "The Student," things going wrong, early in G.W. Pabst's anti-war shocker, with advanced sound effects for 1930, Westfront 1918.
Westfront 1918 (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Go On Kissing German soldier Karl (Gustav Deissl), just arrived on leave in his increasingly desperate home town, as the war effort fails, aims to surprise his wife (Hanna Hoessrich), a chilling scene from G.W. Pabst's Westfront 1918, 1930.

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