Westfront 1918

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Katrina W It was okay. I wish there was a dub in English. It wasn't interesting enough to have to read subtitles. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 05/26/23 Full Review michale j I can understand the power this film would have had at the time. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member For a 1930's German War film Westfront 1918 is very impressive. What few battles scenes there are, they're very impressive. While there isn't much a storyline throughout, and kind of just bounces around from scene to scene with these German soldiers you get a sense of what they've went through and how just brutal and devastating WWI was. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review isaac m Westfront 1918 is an awesome movie that was once forgotten because of the Nazi regime. Thank goodness that this movie survived and I enjoyed the entire movie. I love the themes of war, horror and pacifism. I also love how the film has been made during the times where people don't take much about the First World War. Overall, Westfront 1918 is a good depiction of the German troops during the First World War. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review andrey k And I thought I'd seen it all, and I thought 'Paths of Glory' was probably the greatest WW1 movie (aside 'I Accuse', of course). Until I've seen this picture from a genius director G.W. Pabst. Perfect and ingenious direction is what struck me from the very beginning. All scenes are shot in a careful and patient manner of a master. In this movie many features of such future directors as Kubrick and Spielberg can be traced. The film looks stunningly realistic, documentary style and at the same time highly artistic. Those shots when a static camera impartially observe the battles are horrifyingly brutal and honest in depiction of true horrors of war. Many tracking shots that capture the chaos, panic, deaths, explosions make it obvious whom future directors learned from. The monotonous and bleak everyday life of the trench warfare couldn't be portrayed better. The nightmarish hospital scene at the end is painful to watch, a rare movie achieves this kind of intensity in portraying the madness and horrible effects of war. The scenes of home front are equally realistic, revealing and captivating - war is everywhere, it touches every aspect of life, everybody suffers. After watching this movie I had a feeling that I'd spent some time in real trenches on real battlefields of WW1. You won't have this feeling watching any modern WW1 movie. Only those old movies can produce such an effect, when there were many veterans of that war, when the pain was still fresh and they knew the horrors of that war first-hand. In fact, some actors from this movie were actually war veterans. It's a pity that those movies are almost forgotten by the modern audience and only those few interested in history of cinema as well as those who seek the truth about that war get to see this picture. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Another great WWI film! Considering its age it's absolutely incredible how well this film brings war cruelty in the trenches on the screen. Like fellow WWI film All Quiet on the Western Front (with whom it shares many more similarities) it only shows personal impacts on the soldiers and not whole sceneries (like the Omaha Beach in Saving Private Ryan) which makes it even more affecting. The use of explosions, smoke, sound and blood is well orchestrated and the black and white gives the film a natural bleakness. The war scenes in Westfront were even better than the ones in the US Best Picture winner. It wasn't quite as devastating as AQOTWF though. The story evolves around four infanterists (rather three because one of them is merely a side character) who have to face difficult situations in the trenches as well as in their personal life. You don't really get to know them very good and you don't even learn their full names but you can see what horrible experiences they gain. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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