The Film
Westfront 1918
The Story
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.
german abroad amputee 1910s furlough western front runner comradeship german soldier shell shock mud blindness red cross cuckold artillery machine gun death nervous breakdown dog explosion doctor black and white poverty attack singer dying man shelter family relationships knife tank dead soldier infantry hand grenade marriage hunger village military officer poison steel helmet world war i nurse operation infidelity
Runtime
97 min
Released May 1930
Gallery
The Stills.
