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Whither Germany?

Kuhle Wampe oder: Wem gehört die Welt?

1932
Germany
feature film - Drama
71 min.
Location shooting / Berlin story line

Cast

Actor/-ess: Lilli Schönborn (Mutter Bönike); Max Sablotzki (Vater Bönike); Fritz Erpenbeck; Gerhard Bienert (Zeitungsleser in der S-Bahn); Alfred Schäfer; Helene Weigel; Ernst Busch (Fritz); Hertha Thiele (Anni Bönike); Martha Wolter (Gerda); Adolf Fischer (Kurt); Erwin Geschonneck (Arbeitersportler); Willi Schur (Otto, der Verlobungsgast); Martha Burchardi; Carlheinz Carell; Carl Dahmen; Josef Hanoszek; Richard Hilgert; Hugo Werner-Kahle; Hermann Krehan; Paul Kretzburg; Anna Müller-Lincke; Rudolf Nehls; Erich Peters; Olly Rummel; Martha Seemann; Hans Sternberg; Karl Wagner; Hans Stern

Direction

Director: Slatan Dudow

Writing

Screenplay: Bertolt Brecht; Ernst Ottwald

Screenplay contributor: Slatan Dudow

Camera & Light

Director of photography: Günther Krampf

Decor

Production design: Robert Scharfenberg; Carl Haacker

Cutting & Mixing

Editing: Peter Meyrowitz

Sound: Carl-Erich Kroschke; Fritz Michelis

Music

Music: Hanns Eisler

Conductor: Josef Schmid

Singer: Ernst Busch

Music-Production: Lewis Ruth

Lyrics: Bertolt Brecht

Production

Producer: Willi Münzenberg; Lazar Wechsler

Unit production manager: Georg M. Höllering; Robert Scharfenberg

Location manager: Karl Ehrlich

Companies

Production company: Prometheus Film-Verleih und Vertrieb GmbH

completed by: Praesens-Film GmbH