Dec
12
Regimes of Spectacle in Weimar Cinema - KUHLE WAMPE (Or Who Owns the World?)
Film Screening and Discussion KUHLE WAMPE ODER: WEM GEHÖRT DIE WELT? [KUHLE WAMPE (OR WHO OWNS THE WORLD?)]
SLATAN DUDOW, 1931; 71 MINS
A polemical left -wing treatment of Weimar labor politics, this “milestone of political cinema”is here presented in a restored print in German with English Subtitles; Screenplay by Bertolt Brecht; & Ernst Ottwald; original soundtrack by Hanns Eisler.
Preceded by
ZEITPROBLEME: WIE DER ARBEITER WOHNT [ISSUES OF THE TIME: HOW THE WORKER LIVES]
SLATAN DUDOW; 1930; 12 MINS
One of the first examples of the “proletarian reportage films,” this documentary short exposes the
miserable living conditions in the working class tenements of Berlin.
In German with simultaneous
English translation.