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Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?

6.9 74 mins Drama   1932
Praesens-Film   Prometheus-Film-Verleih  
Director(s): Slatan Dudow

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.”

Casts of Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?

Hertha Thiele

as Anni

Ernst Busch

as Fritz

Max Sablotzki

as Vater Bönicke

Lilli Schoenborn

as Mutter Bönike

Martha Wolter

as Gerda

Adolf Fischer

as Kurt

Gerhard Bienert

as Zeitungsleser

Erwin Geschonneck

as Arbeitersportler

Anna Müller-Lincke

as Sängerin

Helene Weigel

as Ballad singer (voice)

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