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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.
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Westfront 1918. 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 Germany and beyond.
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Jan 30, 2018 · Westfront 1918 does a signal job of conveying the fear, monotony, dirt, and exhaustion of the trenches, the boredom and uncertainty so poisonous that men would risk their lives just to leave the holes in which they were stuck. The camera is stationary in the trenches but runs wobbling along the surface up top with the soldiers.
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.
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- Drama, Romance, War
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst
- 1930-05-23
- Synopsis
- Picture 8/10
- Audio 5/10
- Extras 8/10
- Closing
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:
Aug 3, 2010 · Westfront 1918. 1930. Germany. Directed by G. W. Pabst. These notes accompany screenings of G. W. Pabst’s Westfront 1918, August 4, 5, and 6 in Theater 3. When we last encountered G. W. Pabst (1885–1967), he had made the startling Die Buchse der Pandora (Pandora’s Box).
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 ...
