Westfront 1918

Directed by G.W. Pabst

Written by Ernst Johannsen, Ladislaus Vajda, Peter Martin Lampel

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.

Cast

Fritz Kampers

Der Bayer

Gustav Diessl

Karl

Hans-Joachim Moebis

Der Student

Claus Clausen

Der Leutnant

Gustav Püttjer

Der Hamburger

Vladimir Sokoloff

Proviantmeister

Jackie Monnier

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Hanna Hoessrich

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Else Heller

Carl Ballhaus

Schlachtergeselle

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Aribert Mog

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André Saint-Germain