

At a mine on the shared edge of France and Germany, an underground explosion leads to the entrapment of a group of French miners. In an effort to save the trapped Frenchmen, German miners Wittkopp and Kasper take it upon themselves to traverse a crumbling war tunnel leading down into the mines. Yet, though the workers harbor no political biases against one another, their callous, less tolerant bosses hope to halt this cross-cultural rescue mission.
Directed by G.W. Pabst
User score
41 votes



Released
November 17, 1931
1h 33m
German, French

Alexander Granach
Kasper

Fritz Kampers
Wilderer
Ernst Busch
Wittkopp

Elisabeth Wendt
Frau Anna Wittkopp

Gustav Püttjer
Kaplan
Oskar Höcker
Mine Foreman

Daniel Mendaille
Jean Leclerc

Georges Charlia
Emile
Andrée Ducret
Françoise
Alex Bernard
Grandfather Jacques, the Old Miner

Pierre-Louis
Georges, Jacques's Grandson

Héléna Manson
Rose, Albert's Wife
Marcel Lesieur
Albert
Willem Holsboer
German Mine Engineer

Georges Tourreil
Engineer Vidal

Palmyre Levasseur
Teddy Michaud
Rortais
Marcel Merminod
Franz Schier