The print at the British Film Institute is missing the final scene , which may have been deliberately removed by censorship, but is considered by Pabst,s long time editor to have been the most important sequence in the entire film.
G W Pabst received the French Legion of Honor award for his work on this film.
Because the dialogue in Kameradschaft was spoken in the two languages of the French and German participants, without subtitles, when it came time to release the film in Paris, instead of, as frequent in the early sound era, shooting a separate language version the editor chose alternate takes of each shot to form a slightly different print, shortening and lengthening several scenes in the process.
The Criterion DVD release of the film preserves the original early sound aspect ratio of 1:2 so that the heads of actors are not cropped, unlike the inaccurate 1:33 version shown on TCM.
The movie was filmed in the narrow transitional sound ratio of 1.20-1, but, at least in the case of the Janus video release telecast on Turner Classic Movies, has been converted to the standard 1.37-1 ratio with the result that the players' heads are cut off either partially or completely in many of the key scenes. In the final sequence, the heads of the speakers are completely cut off.