Westfront 1918 (1930) - G. W. Pabst's first talkie

IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021542/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
IMDB rating: 7,6

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Main Cast: Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessl

"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." - http://www.allmovie.com/movie/westfront-1918-v53915

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