Westfront 1918 (1930)
May 23, 1930
War, Drama
1h 37m
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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Cast & Crew
- Director
- G.W. Pabst
Der Bayer Fritz Kampers
Karl Gustav Diessl
Der Student Hans-Joachim Moebis
Der Leutnant Claus Clausen
Der Hamburger Gustav Püttjer
Proviantmeister Vladimir Sokoloff
Else Heller
Schlachtergeselle Carl Ballhaus
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Keywords
- infidelity
- operation
- nurse
- world war i
- steel helmet
- poison
- military officer
- village
- hunger
- marriage
- hand grenade
- infantry
- dead soldier
- tank
- knife
- family relationships
- shelter
- dying man
- singer
- attack
- poverty
- black and white
- doctor
- explosion
- dog
- nervous breakdown
- death
- machine gun
- artillery
- cuckold
- red cross
- blindness
- mud
- shell shock
- german soldier
- comradeship
- runner
- western front
- furlough
- 1910s
- amputee
- german abroad