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Westfront 1918
Westfront 1918
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WESTFRONT 1918

Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie

Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Germany, 1930
Drama, Romance, War

Synopsis

The story concentrates on four German soldiers, stationed in France in the final months of World War I. The film illustrates the harrowing ordeals of battle and of life in the trenches, as the men are worn away in body and spirit by firefights, shelling, and the disillusion on the home front.

Synopsis

The story concentrates on four German soldiers, stationed in France in the final months of World War I. The film illustrates the harrowing ordeals of battle and of life in the trenches, as the men are worn away in body and spirit by firefights, shelling, and the disillusion on the home front.

Our take

G.W. Pabst’s first foray into the “talkies” was this ruthlessly naturalistic anti-war film, which remains one of the classics of the genre. The great Austrian director paints a series of unforgettable images of life in the trenches and ambitiously stages the brutal and epic choreography of warfare.