Westfront 1918
Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie
1930 · 97 min · DE
Directed by G.W. Pabst
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.
War · Drama
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1930 · Source: Internet Archive
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Cast
Principal players
Crew
Peter Martin Lampel
writer
Charles Métain
cinematographer
Alexander Laszlo
composer
Ladislaus Vajda
writer
Fritz Arno Wagner
cinematographer
