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Du und mancher Kamerad is an East German film. It was released in 1956. 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.[3][4]

Du und mancher Kamerad
Film poster
Directed by	Andrew Thorndike and Annelie Thorndike[1]
Written by	Günther Rücker, Andrew Thorndike, Annelie Thorndike, Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler[2]
Narrated by	Günther Rücker[2]
Cinematography	Kurt Stanke, Waldemar Ruge, Walter Fuchs, Joachim Lubinau, Ernst Kunstmann, Vera Futterlieb, Rudolf Ehrlich, Harry Kadoch[2]
Edited by	Ella Ulrich[2]
Music by	Paul Dessau[2]
Distributed by	DEFA
Release date	1956 (1956)
Running time	103 minutes[2]
Country	East Germany
Language	German

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.[4][5] The film has an alternate title of Krieg oder Frieden and is the best-known of the Thorndike films.[6][7]

References

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Bergehahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
• Childs, David (2014). The GDR (RLE: German Politics): Moscow's German Ally. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-54210-0.
• Davidson, John E.; Hake, Sabina (2007). Framing the Fifties:Cinema in a Divided Germany. Bergehahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-204-9.
• Silberman, Marc; Wrage, Henning (2014). DEFA at the Crossroads of East German and International Film Culture: A Companion. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 978-3-11-027345-8.
• Shaw, Tony (2006). British Cinema and the Cold War: The State, Propaganda and Consensus. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84511-211-0.

External links

• Du und mancher Kamerad at IMDb 

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