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G. W. Pabst brought the war movie into a new era with his first sound film, a mercilessly realistic depiction of the nightmare that scarred a generation, in the director s native Germany and beyond. Digging into the trenches with four infantrymen stationed in France in the final months of World War I, Pabst illustrates the harrowing ordeals of battle with unprecedented naturalism, as the men are worn away in body and spirit by firefights, shelling, and the disillusion that greets them on the home front. Long unavailable, the newly restored Westfront 1918 is a visceral, sobering antiwar statement that is as urgent today as when it was made.
CONDITION: NEW
Actors: Claus Clausen, Gustav Diessl, Fritz Kampers, H. J. Moebis
Directors: G. W. Pabst
Format: Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: German
Subtitles: English
Region: Region A/1
Number of discs: 1
Rated:
NR
Not Rated
Studio: Criterion Collection
DVD Release Date: January 30, 2018
Run Time: 96 minutes
Cast & Crew
Fritz Kampers The Bavarian
Gustav Diessl Karl
Hans Joachim Moebis The Student
Claus Clausen The Lieutenant
Else Heller Karl's mother
Hanna Hoessrich Karl's wife
Jackie Monnier Yvette
Vladimir Sokoloff An Orderly
Carl Ballhaus The Butcher Boy
Gustav Püttjer Actor
Technical Credits
G.W. Pabst Director
P.M. Lampel Screenwriter
Erno Metzner Production Designer
Laszlo Vajda Screenwriter
Fritz Arno Wagner Cinematographer
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