Westfront 1918

Westfront 1918

97 mins | War | May 23, 1930

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

97 mins | War | May 23, 1930

Westfront 1918
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.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers Bavaria Film, Nero-Film AG
Original title Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie
Directors G.W. Pabst
Writers Peter Martin Lampel, Ernst Johannsen, Ladislaus Vajda

Cast

Fritz Kampers

as Der Bayer

Gustav Diessl

as Karl

Hans-Joachim Moebis

as Der Student

Claus Clausen

as Der Leutnant

Gustav Püttjer

as Der Hamburger

Vladimir Sokoloff

as Proviantmeister

Carl Ballhaus

as Schlachtergeselle