Ernst Busch

A old German mine was split in two after the end of WWI because of the new border. In the French part a fire breaks out. The German minwers send a rescue group in, helping their French comrades... (imdb)

A German feature film, released in 1932, about unemployment and left wing politics in the Weimar Republic. The title refers to a tent camp for the dispossessed set up in the countryside near to Berlin. (Wikipedia)

The story of five men whose lives cross during WWI.

During the Spanish Civil War in 1936, a group of International Brigadiers are cut off, lacking ammunition and water. Five men, plus a radio operator, are chosen by their commander to remain with him and hold off the enemy, whilst the others retreat. After a brief skirmish, the five men are each given part of a message that will only be decipherable in the event that all five return safely.

This Brechtian musical about a young woman who flees from her decrepit, noble fiancé and marries a sailor is an interesting, although not a completely successful attempt to translate the sort of stage show to film. It has some good points, including the complete abandonment of the sort of surrealistic stage design that had enlivened the silent cinema. Instead, this tries for a purely cinematic technique, including multiple exposures, undercranking and distorting camera angles and lenses. (imdb)

Illustrates both the powerlessness of the ordinary worker as well as an intimate portrait of the joys and sorrows of a small group of people in the harbor section of Hamburg.

"Busch singt" consists of 6 films "About the first part of our century" and does not present Ernst Busch only as a singer but is a film with and about Busch as a chronicler and fighter for communist ideals of his time. (imdb)

A young woman born illegitimately comes to terms with the challenge of getting married.