
All Quiet on the Western Front(1930)
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.


A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.

Fritz Kampers
Der Bayer

Gustav Diessl
Karl

Hans-Joachim Moebis
Der Student

Claus Clausen
Der Leutnant

Gustav Püttjer
Der Hamburger

Vladimir Sokoloff
Proviantmeister

Jackie Monnier
Hanna Hoessrich

Else Heller

Carl Ballhaus
Schlachtergeselle
Westfront 1918 is a war, drama film released in 1930 exploring themes of infidelity, operation, nurse, world war i, steel helmet, poison. Directed by G.W. Pabst, it stars Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessl, Hans-Joachim Moebis. A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.
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