Drama
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
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Written by
Ladislaus Vajda, Herbert Rappaport, Anna Gmeyner, Karl Otten, Peter Martin Lampel
Felix Bressart
Café Doorman (uncredited)
Gerhard Bienert
German Gendarme
Alexander Granach
Kasper
Héléna Manson
Rose, Albert's Wife
Palmyre Levasseur
Georges Charlia
Emile
Fritz Kampers
Wilderer
Ernst Busch
Wittkopp
Elisabeth Wendt
Frau Anna Wittkopp
Gustav Püttjer
Kaplan
Pierre-Louis
Georges, Jacques's Grandson
Daniel Mendaille
Jean Leclerc
Georges Tourreil
Engineer Vidal
Oskar Höcker
Mine Foreman
Andrée Ducret
Françoise
Alex Bernard
Grandfather Jacques, the Old Miner
Marcel Lesieur
Albert
Willem Holsboer
German Mine Engineer
Teddy Michaud
Rortais
Marcel Merminod
Franz Schier
Adolf Fischer
Georg Guertler
Naupel
Friedrich Gnaß
Fritz, Rescue Volunteer
Reinhardt
Théo Tony
Marguerite Debois
Levasseur

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