Westfront 1918

1930 · 97 min · dir. Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Westfront 1918 is a German war film, set mostly in the trenches of the Western Front during World War I. It was directed in 1930 by G. W. Pabst, from a screenplay by Ladislaus Vajda based on the novel Four Infantrymen on the Western Front 1918 by Ernst Johannsen. The film shows the effect of the war on a group of infantrymen portrayed by an ensemble cast led by screen veterans Fritz Kampers and Gustav Diessl. Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.