WESTFRONT 1918 [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1930
• Genre: Foreign, War
• Plot: 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 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 restored Westfront 1918 is a visceral, sobering antiwar statement that is as urgent today as when it was made.
• Cast: Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessl, Hans-Joachim Moebis, Claus Clausen, Jackie Monnier, Hanna Hoessrich, Else Heller, Carl Balhaus, Aribert Mog, Gustav Püttjer, André Saint-Germain, Vladimir Sokoloff, Emil Wabschke, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Ernst Johannsen, Ladislaus Vajda
• Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
• Runtime: 1:36
• Company: The Criterion Collection, Janus Films, Deutsche Kinemathek
• Media Format: Movie