Du und mancher Kamerad

1956 film

1956 (1956)

Running time

103 minutes^[2]CountryEast GermanyLanguageGerman

Du und mancher Kamerad is a 1956 East German documentary film by Andrew and Annelie Thorndike. In English-speaking countries it was titled You and Your Pal or The German Story.^[3]^[4] The film employed archival footage to attempt a connection between Imperial Germany, the government of the Weimar Republic, and the Third Reich to the government of West Germany at the time.^[5]^[6] The film has an alternate title of Krieg oder Frieden and is the best-known of the Thorndike films.^[7]^[8]

An East German newspaper claimed that the film was well received in the United Kingdom. It was banned in West Germany and remained so some years after its release; some subsequent films directed by the Thorndikes were banned in Great Britain by the British Board of Film Classification.^[6]^[9] When the film ran in Dublin in 1960, the Fine Gael opposition complained in the Dáil that it should have been banned by the Official Censor of Films for meeting the statutory criterion of being "subversive of public morality".^[4]^[10]

References

^ Davidson & Hake 2007, p. 121.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Silberman & Wrage 2014, p. 322.
^ "You and Your Pal - The German Story". Socialism on Film: The Cold War and International Propaganda. Adam Matthew Digital. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
^ ^a ^b Connolly, Peter R. (June 1960). "Films". The Furrow. 11 (6): 398–400. ISSN 0016-3120. JSTOR 27657873.
^ Bock & Bergfelder 2009, p. 475.
^ ^a ^b Silberman & Wrage 2014, pp. 286–287.
^ Childs 2014, p. 248.
^ "Du und mancher Kamarad". IMDB. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
^ Shaw 2006, p. 190.
^ "Questions: Oral Answers — "The German Story": Exhibition of Film in Dublin". Dáil Éireann (16th Dáil) debates. Oireachtas. 17 May 1960. Retrieved 16 April 2024.

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