布特（古斯塔夫·冯·沃根海姆 Gustav von Wangenheim 饰）是一家不来梅地产公司的职员，受公司委派去一座古堡与诺斯费拉图伯爵（马科斯·夏瑞克 Max Schreck 饰）做房屋买卖交易，但是在古堡附近的旅店投宿时，人们得知他目的地的反应都很奇怪。到了古堡，见到面目枯槁、行为古怪的诺斯费拉图伯爵，也得知他昼伏夜出的生活习惯，布特对他的身份心生窦疑，终于探知他就是传说中的吸血鬼。布特逃出古堡，伯爵也一路奔向他买好的、位于不来梅的房子。布特回家后，得知吸血鬼伯爵已经到来，而且正是他令小城瘟疫肆虐，他和妻子艾伦（Greta Schröder 饰）一起，开始设法消灭吸血鬼伯爵……

During a dinner, given by a wealthy baron and his wive, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the marriage by giving all the guests a vision what might happen tonight if the baron stays jealous and the suitors do not reduce their advances towards his beautiful wife. Or was it a vision ?

1906年3月10日，一场火灾引发了恐怖的煤气爆炸，浓烟滚滚持续了三周，1200多名矿被深埋在古利耶尔（位于法国）矿井中。一支特别救援队的德国矿工从威斯特伐利亚(德意志联邦共和国西北部一地区) 赶到法国加入营救。导演乔治• 威廉• 巴布斯特的这部《同志之谊》就是以这一事件为背景的。
该片无疑是其所处时代德国社会主义电影的巅峰作品。巴布斯特描绘了一幅法德边境的矿区图，当时一战的余波正渐渐退去，法国的繁荣昌盛和沙文主义与德国的通货膨胀和高失业率形成鲜明对比。无论是视觉风格还是该片展现的团结精神都源于其时的苏维埃社会现实主义，但巴布斯特比任何一位俄国导演都持着更为复杂的社会批判态度。只有这样一位受过创伤而持怀疑态度的柏林悲观主义者才能拍出这样一部感人而诚挚的作品。如同安东尼奥尼的《红色沙漠》，巴布斯特借助于表现工业地区的人性因素，以及人们如何适应自己建设的这一环境来展现工业时代的景象。
该片位列“最伟大的百部德国电影”第77位。

Brecht's play revolves around Anna Balicke, whose lover (Andreas) has left to fight in World War I. Anna's parents try to convince her that he is dead and that she should forget him and marry a wealthy war-materials manufacturer, Murk. Anna agrees to this arrangement eventually, just as Andreas returns. Believing that the poor proletarian Andreas cannot provide the kind of life for Anna that the bourgeois Murk can, Anna's parents encourage her to stick to her agreement. Eventually Anna leaves Murk and her parents and, against the backdrop of the Spartacist uprising, searches for Andreas. In the final scene they are re-united; to the sound of "a white wild screaming" from the newspaper buildings above, they walk away together.

The play dramatizes many of the grievances of the Spartacists in their uprising. The soldiers returning from the front felt that they had been fighting for nothing and that what they had before they left had been stolen. Murk, the war-profiteer who did not fight and who instead made a fortune from the fighting, and who attempts to steal the soldier's fiancé, symbolizes that feeling by the working class of having been cheated.

The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.

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