Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?

Name: Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?
Director: Slatan Dudow
Released: 1932
Duration: 74 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Hertha Thiele, Ernst Busch, Martha Wolter, Adolf Fischer, Lili Schoenborn-Anspach

1932 · 74 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 875 VOTES · DIR. Slatan Dudow

Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? poster

Overview

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.”

Dialogue Timeline — 435 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:01:13 KUHLE WAMPE or WHO OWNS THE WORLD

00:10:09 There is always work for a really good worker

00:11:17 For god's sake!, quiet down! What will the neighbors think!

00:16:20 Unknown!

00:20:51 Then you'll just have to come out to my place at Kuhle Wampe.

00:25:02 The countryside in spring Appears to the lovers in a new light.

00:28:09 in the expressive dances of the most primitive and oriental peoples

00:29:59 It's too dirty there.

00:35:26 What are you going to do with Anni?

00:40:20 Why are you doing it then?

00:44:17 Gerda put a bee in your bonnet?

00:47:27 Friedrichshain!

00:48:15 What do you mean? She's still living with me.

00:49:43 I have only twenty pfennigs too.

00:53:14 And learn to win!

00:56:54 When starving or when eating Forward, not forgetting Our solidarity!

01:00:47 Attention! Doors closing!

01:02:39 24 million pounds of coffee burned. That is really a crying shame!

01:03:43 International politics!

01:04:54 they'll never get a head.

01:06:10 Political agitation is forbidden!

01:07:00 gentlemen: what is it to you what happens to the coffee in Brazil?

01:08:15 And this man here ...

24:36:02 carry the zero ... another zero.

Cast & Characters

Hertha Thiele Annie Bönike Ernst Busch Fritz Martha Wolter Gerda Adolf Fischer Kurt, Anni's Bruder Lili Schoenborn-Anspach Mutter Bönike Max Sablotzki Vater Bönike Alfred Schaefer Junger Arbeitsloser Gerhard Bienert Zeitungsleser in der S-Bahn Martha Burchardi Carl Heinz Charrell

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed435

Dialogue density5.9 lines / min

First line00:01:13

Final line24:36:02

Production Record

DirectorSlatan Dudow

LanguageGerman

IMDb votes875