Bibliograph

Westfront 1918, director, G.W. Pabst

Type

Label

Westfront 1918, director, G.W. Pabst

Language

ger

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

MPAA rating: Not rated

Main title

Westfront 1918

Medium

videorecording

Oclc number

1015908997

Responsibility statement

director, G.W. Pabst

Runtime

Series statement

Criterion collection, 907

Summary

G. W. Pabst brought the war movie into a new era with his first sound film, a mercilessly realistic depiction of the nightmare that scarred a generation, in the director's native Germany and beyond. Digging into the trenches with four infantrymen stationed in France in the final months of World War I, Pabst illustrates the harrowing ordeals of battle with unprecedented naturalism, as the men are worn away in body and spirit by firefights, and the disillusion that greets them on the home front

Target audience

general

Technique

live action

Classification