Westfront 1918 (1930)
(Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie)
Country: GER
Technical: bw 75m
Director: G.W. Pabst
Cast: Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessel, Hans Joachim Moebis
Synopsis:
The bitter experiences of German infantrymen fighting the French in the trenches of World War One.
Review:
Coming out at the same time as Milestone's All Quiet…, also told from the point of view of the Germans, this is often compared favourably with it. However, it is the differences that are more noteworthy: brutally realistic to the point of some confused and oddly elliptical battle scenes, it lacks the technical sweep and poetry of the American film, and the machine-gun fire sounds like so many woodpeckers. Trench scenes anticipate those in the mines of Kameradschaft (qv).
(Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie)
Country: GER
Technical: bw 75m
Director: G.W. Pabst
Cast: Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessel, Hans Joachim Moebis
Synopsis:
The bitter experiences of German infantrymen fighting the French in the trenches of World War One.
Review:
Coming out at the same time as Milestone's All Quiet…, also told from the point of view of the Germans, this is often compared favourably with it. However, it is the differences that are more noteworthy: brutally realistic to the point of some confused and oddly elliptical battle scenes, it lacks the technical sweep and poetry of the American film, and the machine-gun fire sounds like so many woodpeckers. Trench scenes anticipate those in the mines of Kameradschaft (qv).
(Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie)
Country: GER
Technical: bw 75m
Director: G.W. Pabst
Cast: Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessel, Hans Joachim Moebis
Synopsis:
The bitter experiences of German infantrymen fighting the French in the trenches of World War One.
Review:
Coming out at the same time as Milestone's All Quiet…, also told from the point of view of the Germans, this is often compared favourably with it. However, it is the differences that are more noteworthy: brutally realistic to the point of some confused and oddly elliptical battle scenes, it lacks the technical sweep and poetry of the American film, and the machine-gun fire sounds like so many woodpeckers. Trench scenes anticipate those in the mines of Kameradschaft (qv).