Carbide & sorrel (Karbid und Sauerampfer)

Streaming video - 2014

In the summer of 1945, Dresden factory workers send their colleague, Kalle, hundreds of miles north to pick up carbide, which is needed for welding jobs in their factory. His attempts to bring the supplies back through the Soviet occupation zone become a hilarious odyssey full of high jinks and misadventures. A rare classic of German film comedy! Right after WWII, factory worker Karl Bluecher, nicknamed Kalle, sets out from Dresden for Wittenberge to procure carbide, which is desperately needed to re-start production in a bombed-out factory. Kalle was not chosen by chance. On one hand, his brother-in-law works at the Wittenberge carbide plant; on the other, he is a vegetarian and so will definitely manage to find food along the road on his ...journey. He gets through to Wittenberge and could bring seven drums of carbide back to Dresden . . . if only he had a means of transport! But his journey home becomes quite an adventure, complete with a love story, an arrest and many close calls. Combining fast-paced humor, keen social observation and popular appeal, this film reached over a million viewers in its first three-months.

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Genres
Feature films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming 2014.
Language
German
English
Corporate Author
Kanopy (Firm)
Corporate Author
Kanopy (Firm) (-)
Other Authors
Frank Beyer (director), Erwin Geschonneck (actor), Marita Böhme, Manja Behrens, Margot Busse
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
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Item Description
Title from title frames.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 100 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).