Westfront 1918
By: director, G.W. Pabst
Contributors: Clausen, Claus, 1899-1989, actor; Diessl, Gustav, 1899-1948; Kampers, Fritz, actor; Moebis, H. J. (Hans Joachim), 1902-1976, actor; Criterion Collection (Firm)
Edition: Special edition.
Series: Criterion collection; Criterion collection
Published: 2018
Language: ger
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781681433943
Subjects: Drama; World War, 1914-1918; Campaigns
Description: 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.
Notes: Title from sell sheet.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1930.

1.19:1 aspect ratio.

Special features: hour-long French television broadcast of World War veterans reacting to the film in 1969; 2016 interview with film scholar Jan-Christopher Hora; new restoration demonstration featuring Martin Koerber and Julia Wallmüller of the Deutsche Kinemathek; essay by author and critic Luc Sante.

Claus Clausen, Gustav Diessl, Fritz Kampers, H. J. Moebis.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD.

German dialogue; English subtitles.