those french and those german sure have a long history of not like each other . it be interest to note that kamerdaschaft or comradeship in translation take place in 1931. only a few year later and hitler would siege germany and begin his plan to take over the world and france be a casualty of his ambition . but these be time of sereneness compare to the future . a group of miner at the border try to cross over to france to get work . they be spurn back and later at a nightclub by their french neighbor . then a disaster happen in the mine of the french and a well craft and write scene and a troupe of german miner decide to come to the rescue . a simple story be it not . pabst be a poet of silent cinema and i be not sure if this be his first sound movie or not and but his poetry be there to be discover . he isn not fussy but bring a rugged realism to the ordeal . ther be even a flashback to a wwii event that beckon the point of this story . supposedly base on a real event and the movie do the event proudly with directness and terseness . smetimes and that what a movie need to be .