Original Title: All Quiet on the Western Front
Year: 1930
Genre:
Drama, War
Category: Movie
IMDB Rating: 8,1 (DINO Rating: 7,5)
Country: USA
Language:
Director: Lewis Milestone
Writer: Erich Maria Remarque, Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, Del Andrews, C. Gardner Sullivan, Walter Anthony, Lewis Milestone
Composer: Sam Perry, Heinz Roemheld
Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr.
Actors: Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy, Ben Alexander, Scott Kolk, Owen Davis Jr., Walter Rogers, William Bakewell, Russell Gleason, Richard Alexander, Harold Goodwin, Slim Summerville, G. Pat Collins, Beryl Mercer, Edmund Breese, Zasu Pitts, Ernie Adams, Marion Clayton Anderson, Poupée Andriot, Vince Barnett, Daisy Belmore, Glen Boles, Heinie Conklin, Yola d'Avril, Renée Damonde, Arthur Gardner, Raymond Griffith, Ellen Hall, William Irving, Frederick Kohner, Frank Leichtfried, Tom London, Bertha Mann, Joan Marsh, Edwin Maxwell, Jack McHugh, Maurice Murphy, Robert Parrish, Bodil Rosing, Wolfgang Staudte, Jack Sutherland, David Tyrell, Dorothy Vernon, Fred Zinnemann
Description: This is an English language film (made in America) adapted from a novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque. The film follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War 1 by their jingoistic teacher. The story is told entirely through the experiences of the young German recruits and highlights the tragedy of war through the eyes of individuals. As the boys witness death and mutilation all around them, any preconceptions about "the enemy" and the "rights and wrongs" of the conflict disappear, leaving them angry and bewildered. This is highlighted in the scene where Paul mortally wounds a French soldier and then weeps bitterly as he fights to save his life while trapped in a shell crater with the body. The film is not about heroism but about drudgery and futility and the gulf between the concept of war and the actuality.
Comments:
Duration: 136 minutes (at 29.97 frames per second)
File path: Z:\02086 - All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) [DVDRip]\AllQuietOnTheWesternFront.avi
Filesize: 701 MB
Video: DivX 3 Low - resolution: 512x384 - quality: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
Audio:
Subtitles: English, Serbian