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Release Date:
May 23, 1930
Original Title:
Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie
Alternate Titles:
Cuatro de infantería
Cuatro de infantería (Westfront 1918)
Guerra! Flagelo de Deus
Quatre de l'infanterie
Westfront 1918
Западный фронт, 1918 год
Genres:
Drama | War
Production Companies:
Bavaria Film
Nero-Film AG
Production Countries:
Germany
Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 16
Runtime: 97
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.
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Art Direction:
Ernö Metzner
Author:
Ernst Johannsen
Director:
G.W. Pabst
Director of Photography:
Charles Métain
Fritz Arno Wagner
Editor:
W.L. Bagier
Jean Oser
Marc Sorkin
Original Music Composer:
Alexander Laszlo
Producer:
Seymour Nebenzal
Production Manager:
Leo Meyer
Production Supervisor:
Walter Zeiske
Screenplay:
Ladislaus Vajda
Writer:
Peter Martin Lampel
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