Westfront 1918

About 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.

Westfront 1918 (1930) is a war film directed by G.W. Pabst. It runs 97 minutes and was released in May 1930.

Fritz Kampers appears as Der Bayer, Gustav Diessl as Karl, Hans-Joachim Moebis as Der Student, and Claus Clausen as Der Leutnant. Written by Ladislaus Vajda and Peter Martin Lampel.

Shelv files it under singer, village, world war i, and explosion. In the United States it streams on Criterion Channel, HBO Max, and HBO Max Amazon Channel.

All Quiet on the Western Front and We Were Soldiers make useful companions to Westfront 1918, all filed under 1910s, german soldier, and infantry. It scores 6.6 out of 10 from 62 TMDB voters.