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Westfront 1918 [Criterion Collection]
by Gustav Diessl (Karl),
Claus Clausen (The Lieutenant),
Hans-Joachim Moebis (The Student),
Fritz Kampers (The Bavarian),
Jackie Monnier (Jacqueline),
Hanna Hoessrich (Karl's Wife),
Else Heller (Karl's Mother),
Vladimir Sokoloff (An Orderly),
Carl Ballhaus (The Butcher Boy),
Gustav Püttjer (Actor),
Georg Wilhelm Pabst (Director),
Georg Wilhelm Pabst (Director),
Seymour Nebenzal (Producer),
Peter Martin Lampel (Screenwriter),
Peter Martin Lampel (Screenwriter),
Ladislaus Vajda (Screenwriter,Screenwriter),
Ladislaus Vajda (Screenwriter,Screenwriter),
Charles Métain (Cinematographer),
Fritz Arno Wagner (Cinematographer),
Erno Metzner (Production Designer),
P.M. Lampel (Screenwriter)
P.M. Lampel (Screenwriter)
Format: DVD
ISBN: 715515209212
Publication Date: 01/30/2018
Edition Description: Black & White
"Westfront 1918 (aka Comrades of 1918) was the first talkie effort from German filmmaker G. W. Pabst, which he made for Nero Films, a production company headed up by Seymour Nebenzahl. Like the contemporary Hollywood production All Quiet on the Western Front, Pabst's film is a bitter, melancholy antiwar statement. The story concentrates on four German soldiers, sent to the front in the waning days of World War 1. The futility of killing an enemy who is already dead spiritually, and of being killed for a cause that has for all intents and purposes been resolved, is brought home to the viewer with both barrels. The astonishingly fluid camerawork of Fritz Arno puts the spectator in the thick of the battle, and the effect is both terrifying and heartbreaking To watch only a few moments of Westfront 1918, one might think that Pabst had been making sound pictures all his life, rather than a mere couple of months."
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