Westfront 1918
Westfront 1918

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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.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Westfront 1918:

Fritz Kampers
Gustav Diessl
Hans-Joachim Moebis
Claus Clausen
Gustav Püttjer
Vladimir Sokoloff

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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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New York Times - 10/10 by Walter GoodmanThe truth of the movie is all in the trenches.
Q Network Film Desk - 9/10 by James Kendrickremains a powerful testament to its physical, psychological, and spiritual horrors
CinePassion - 8/10 by Fernando F. CroceIn his first talkie, G.W. Pabst plunks down in the winding trenches for a grunt's view of dirt and shrapnel
Little White Lies - 8/10 by PJ NabarroThe thinking man's All Quiet on the Western Front. A coruscating portrait of the transcendent desolation caused by war.
Eye for Film - 7/10 by Jennie KermodeOften challenging for a modern audience to engage with, and never an easy watch, this is one for the connoisseurs and for those seeking to understand a conflict which no longer has any survivors.
Pitch.com - 6/10 by Eric MelinRather than force common war story beats onto the characters, Pabst employs a more observational tone. His camera was free to move along the surface of the trenches, giving the full wide expanse of what the soldiers were experiencing.
User Review - 10/10 by Greg D..lejos una de las mejores peliculas sobre la primera guerra, la "nueva objetividad" de Pabst crea una pelicula mas de vivencias que un drama.. no existen simbolismos cursis, solo el horror y el miedo.
User Review - 10/10 by Andrey BAnd I thought I'd seen it all, and I thought 'Paths of Glory' was probably the greatest WW1 movie (aside 'I Accuse', of course). Until I've seen this picture from a genius director G.W. Pabst. Perfect and ingenious direction is what struck me from the very beginning. All scenes are shot in a careful and patient manner of a master. In this movie many features of such future directors as Kubrick and Spielberg can be traced. The film looks stunningly realistic, documentary style and at the same time highly artistic. Those shots when a static camera impartially observe the battles are horrifyingly brutal and honest in depiction of true horrors of war. Many tracking shots that capture the chaos, panic, deaths, explosions make it obvious whom future directors learned from. The monotonous and bleak everyday life of the trench warfare couldn't be portrayed better. The nightmarish hospital scene at the end is painful to watch, a rare movie achieves this kind of intensity in portraying the madness and horrible effects of war. The scenes of home front are equally realistic, revealing and captivating - war is everywhere, it touches every aspect of life, everybody suffers. After watching this movie I had a feeling that I'd spent some time in real trenches on real battlefields of WW1. You won't have this feeling watching any modern WW1 movie. Only those old movies can produce such an effect, when there were many veterans of that war, when the pain was still fresh and they knew the horrors of that war first-hand. In fact, some actors from this movie were actually war veterans. It's a pity that those movies are almost forgotten by the modern audience and only those few interested in history of cinema as well as those who seek the truth about that war get to see this picture.
User Review - 8/10 by Dave JMonday, October 31, 2011 (1930) Westfront 1918 (In German with English subtitles) WAR Realistic anti- war film centered on the affects of 3 German soldiers while fighting against the French during the first World War. Footnote: When Hitler came into power, he practically banned this film 3 for its depiction of how ugly war really looks like, and that it was coincidently made during the same time as Oscar winner "All Quiet On The Western Front"! Realistic in terms of emotions and does an excellent job in identifying with it's characters. It is the first talking picture of the critically acclaimed director of GW Pabst. 3 out of 4 stars
User Review - 8/10 by Rainer KAnother great WWI film! Considering its age it's absolutely incredible how well this film brings war cruelty in the trenches on the screen. Like fellow WWI film All Quiet on the Western Front (with whom it shares many more similarities) it only shows personal impacts on the soldiers and not whole sceneries (like the Omaha Beach in Saving Private Ryan) which makes it even more affecting. The use of explosions, smoke, sound and blood is well orchestrated and the black and white gives the film a natural bleakness. The war scenes in Westfront were even better than the ones in the US Best Picture winner. It wasn't quite as devastating as AQOTWF though. The story evolves around four infanterists (rather three because one of them is merely a side character) who have to face difficult situations in the trenches as well as in their personal life. You don't really get to know them very good and you don't even learn their full names but you can see what horrible experiences they gain.

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