Westfront 1918
1930 · directed by G.W. Pabst
- Rating
- 82/100
- Hit
- yes
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.
Westfront 1918 (1930), directed by G.W. Pabst, rates 82/100 — a hit. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.
Cast
- Fritz Kampers
- Gustav Diessl
- Hans-Joachim Moebis
- Claus Clausen
- Gustav Püttjer
- Vladimir Sokoloff
- Jackie Monnier
- Hanna Hoessrich
- Else Heller
- Carl Ballhaus
Crew
- Charles Métain — Director of Photography
- Fritz Arno Wagner — Director of Photography
- Jean Oser — Editor
- Marc Sorkin — Editor
- W.L. Bagier — Editor
- Alexander Laszlo — Original Music Composer
- Ladislaus Vajda — Screenplay
- Peter Martin Lampel — Writer
More from G.W. Pabst
- Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) — 85/100 · hit
- Pandora's Box (1929) — 83/100 · hit
- The 3 Penny Opera (1931) — 75/100
- Joyless Street (1925) — 69/100
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