Kuhle Wampe (1932)

19321h 16mdir. Slatan DudowGermanGermany, Weimar Republicdrama filmproletarian film

With Ernst Busch, Helene Weigel, Hertha Thiele, Marta Husemann, Adolf Fischer, Lilli Schoenborn, Gerhard Bienert, Anna Müller-Lincke

Directed by Slatan Dudow

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Kuhle Wampe (full title: Kuhle Wampe, oder: Wem gehört die Welt?, translated in English as Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?, and released in the USA as Whither Germany? by Kinematrade Inc.) is a 1932 German feature film about unemployment, homelessness and left wing politics in the Weimar Republic produced by Prometheus Film. The film was conceived and directed by Slatan Dudow, who brought the idea to Bertolt Brecht, who wrote the screenplay in collaboration with Ernst Ottwalt. Brecht also directed the concluding scene: a political debate between strangers on a train about the world coffee market. The film music was composed by Hanns Eisler.

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