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Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (1932)

Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (1932)

Drama
Release Date: 1932, May 14
Directors: Slatan Dudow
Countries: Germany
Production: Praesens-Film, Prometheus-Film-Verleih
Cast: Helene Weigel, Erwin Geschonneck, Ernst Busch, Hertha Thiele, Gerhard Bienert, Lilli Schoenborn, Adolf Fischer, Anna Müller-Lincke, Martha Wolter

Overview:

Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures. This is followed by scenes of a young man looking for work in the city and the family discussing the unpaid back rent. The young man, brother of the protagonist Anni, removes his wristwatch and throws himself from a window out of despair. Shortly thereafter his family is evicted from their apartment. Now homeless, the family moves into a garden colony of sorts with the name “Kuhle Wampe.”

Keywords:

communism pregnancy working class unemployment berlin, germany socialism proletarian german family underclass proletariat republic of weimar