sentimental and naive but undeniably affecting and emotional man help man plea and in this case personify a german and french miner force to be close off from each other after the great war thanks to a new border and lead to disillusionment on the german side and a the french be the boss . but when a fire begin on the french side and the common decency of the german men lead to assistance and safety and even friendship . this be a plea that would fall on deaf ear within the decade and a a certain man from pabst own side would break that piece and turn the great war into merely a prelude . but it be obvious to me that pabst really believe or at least want to hope for this kind of fundamental humanism and a this film radiate with this optimism whereas his more flippant and cynical adaptation of the threepenny opera lack the bite need to make that work work . also further his honest belief be the fact that the character here be not simplistic mouthpiece for position and but real people and with real family whose home live we be privy to as well . these be ordinary and work class men who just happen to believe in the worth of care and treat right your fellow man and and in this day of individualist opportunism and i will take a little thinning in my plot to get a positive message that represent a point of view that i think we can all aspire to . ( note represent apparently the end be cut on most print and where the french rebuild the mining gate and closing off the men once again . this be a brutal turn of event and and may have make the film a good overall film and but i would have lament it sour the positive vibe of the final sequence and so in short and i be glad it be clip . ) { grade represent positive ( b ) or # 7 ( of 11 ) of 1931 } .