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Forwards, Not Forgetting

By: Stephen Daker

Newly reissued, Bertolt Brecht and Slatan Dudow’s 1932 film Kuhle Wampe is one of the true classics of socialist cinema, offering a glimpse of the last moment before the German left were crushed by Nazism.

Still from Kuhle Wampe (1932). (Photo by ullstein bild / ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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First things first — Kuhle Wampe is one of the greatest socialist films ever made, up there in the pantheon with Battleship Potemkin, I Am Cuba, Land and Freedom, or Sorry to Bother You. An early sound film, made in 1932 by a collective including the Bulgarian director Slatan Dudow, the playwright and poet Bertolt […]

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First things first — Kuhle Wampe is one of the greatest socialist films ever made, up there in the pantheon with Battleship Potemkin, I Am Cuba, Land and Freedom, or Sorry to Bother You. An early sound film, made in 1932 by a collective including the Bulgarian director Slatan Dudow, the playwright and poet Bertolt […]

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First things first — Kuhle Wampe is one of the greatest socialist films ever made, up there in the pantheon with Battleship Potemkin, I Am Cuba, Land and Freedom, or Sorry to Bother You. An early sound film, made in 1932 by a collective including the Bulgarian director Slatan Dudow, the playwright and poet Bertolt […]

First things first — Kuhle Wampe is one of the greatest socialist films ever made, up there in the pantheon with Battleship Potemkin, I Am Cuba, Land and Freedom, or Sorry to Bother You. An early sound film, made in 1932 by a collective including the Bulgarian director Slatan Dudow, the playwright and poet Bertolt […]

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