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German. Westfront 1918 is a German war film, set mostly in the trenches of the Western Front during World War I. It was directed in 1930 by G. W. Pabst, from a screenplay by Ladislaus Vajda based on the novel Vier von der Infanterie by Ernst Johannsen. The film shows the effect of the war on a group of infantrymen portrayed by an ensemble cast ...
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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 batt...
G. W. Pabst’s Westfront 1918makes its North American debut on Blu-ray with this release, which presents the film on a dual-layer disc in its original aspect ratio of 1.19:1. The 1080p/24hz high-definition presentation comes from a new 2K restoration performed by Deutsche Kinemathek, using a transfer created from a 35mm duplicate positive held by th...
Coming with a lossless 1.0 PCM soundtrack, it’s limited a bit by age and the technology of the time. The sound can be very flat with little in the way of fidelity, yet despite this dialogue is still audible and clear enough. The film has some explosions and gunfire in it, naturally, but these are also incredibly flat, even hollow and tinny. They ca...
Released on Blu-ray by Criterion alongside another Pabst title, Kameradschaft, the two do mirror each other a bit in regards to supplements but Westfront 1918 comes with a very significant feature, a 71-minute November 12th, 1968 episode of the French television program Les dossiers de l’écran, which features a group of French and German WWI vetera...
With its impressive restoration and a handful of engaging features—the archival segment featuring WWI veterans being the stand-out—this new release will make a great addition to one’s collection. BUY AT:
An early major accomplishment in sound cinema from Pabst, the exacting poignancy of Westfront 1918 transpires in its haunting final frames. Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 26, 2020. The ...
Feb 3, 2018 · Released just a dozen years after the events time-stamped in the film’s title, Westfront 1918 offers a grim perspective on the experience of German soldiers in the final months of World War I. Adapted from a wartime memoir novel by director G.W. Pabst, best known in recent times for his silent movies starring Louise Brooks (Pandora’s Box and Diary of a Lost Girl), this early sound film ...
Jan 29, 2018 · Westfront 1918 ends in unrelieved carnage on the battlefield and its equally harrowing aftermath. When the mortally injured Karl is taken a field hospital, the camera lingers over the maimed, the maddened, and the slowly expiring—and you can almost smell death in the air. Though Pabst is most closely associated with the New Objectivity ...
Feb 5, 2018 · Moving WWI to the foreground is Westfront 1918, a film which Kameradschaft feels very much in conversation with and ultimately a continuation of. A war picture unlike any you’ve ever seen, particularly of this vintage, Westfront is more narratively propulsive than its spiritual sequel, introducing us to a selection of characters from which ...
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Westfront 1918: Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. With Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessl, Hans-Joachim Möbis, Claus Clausen. A group of German solders fight on the front line in France at the end of World War I.
