Overview
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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Based on
Based on Vier von der Infanterie
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Setting
Set in Western Front, France and Germany
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Music
Music by Alexander László
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Fritz Arno Wagner
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Ernst JohannsenAuthor
- Peter Martin LampelWriter
- Ladislaus VajdaScreenplay
- Original title
- Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 23, 1930
- Original language
- German
- Countries
- Germany
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