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Westfront 1918

Deutschland 1930 Spielfilm

The Western Front 1918

Based on the novel Vier von der Infanterie by Ernst Johannsen, The Western Front 1918 tells the story of four German soldiers of very different personalities and social backgrounds who serve together on the French front during the last year of World War I. The happy Bavarian is unshakeable and optimistic. Karl from Berlin has been home on leave, but finds another man in his wife′s bed and is glad to return to his comrades. The lieutenant only knows his duty and seems not to be interested in anything but his duty. The fourth man is a student who has fallen in love with a young French woman named Yvette, to whom he must bid farewell as the company moves on.

The war brings a gruesome end for all four men. The student is killed in no man′s land. The Bavarian is badly injured during a reconnaissance mission. The man from Berlin dies in a field hospital with the accusation "we are all to blame!" on his lips. The lieutenant, whose upright bearing made him appear invulnerable, loses his countenance and his sanity and is sent to a field hospital as a mental wreck.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

 

Credits

Director

  • G. W. Pabst

Screenplay

  • Ladislaus Vajda

Director of photography

  • Fritz Arno Wagner
  • Charles Métain

Editing

  • Wolfgang Loë-Bagier
  • Hans Oser (ungenannt)

Music

  • Alexander Laszlo

Cast

  • Fritz Kampers
    Bayer
  • Gustav Diessl
    Karl
  • Hans Joachim Moebis
    Student
  • Claus Clausen
    Leutnant
  • Gustav Püttjer
    Hamburger
  • Jackie Monnier
    Französin Yvette
  • Hanna Hoessrich
    Karls Frau
  • Else Heller
    Karls Mutter
  • Carl Balhaus
    Schlachtergeselle
  • Wladimir Sokoloff
    Essensträger

Production company

  • Nero-Film AG (Berlin)

Producer

  • Seymour Nebenzahl

Alle Credits

Director

  • G. W. Pabst

Assistant director

  • Paul Falkenberg
  • Victor Trivas (?)

Screenplay

  • Ladislaus Vajda

Dialogue

  • Peter Martin Lampel

based on

  • Ernst Johanssen (Roman "Vier von der Infanterie")

Director of photography

  • Fritz Arno Wagner
  • Charles Métain

Production design

  • Ernö Metzner
  • Willy Reiber (Ausführung)

Set construction

  • Willy Reiber

Editing

  • Wolfgang Loë-Bagier
  • Hans Oser (ungenannt)

Sound

  • Karl Brodmerkel
  • Guido Bagier (Leitung der Vertonung)
  • Joseph Massolle (Leitung der Vertonung)

Consultant

  • André Saint-Germain

Music

  • Alexander Laszlo

Cast

  • Fritz Kampers
    Bayer
  • Gustav Diessl
    Karl
  • Hans Joachim Moebis
    Student
  • Claus Clausen
    Leutnant
  • Gustav Püttjer
    Hamburger
  • Jackie Monnier
    Französin Yvette
  • Hanna Hoessrich
    Karls Frau
  • Else Heller
    Karls Mutter
  • Carl Balhaus
    Schlachtergeselle
  • Wladimir Sokoloff
    Essensträger
  • Emil Wabschke
  • Aribert Mog
  • André Saint-Germain
  • Fritz Métain
  • Ilse Trautschold

Production company

  • Nero-Film AG (Berlin)

Producer

  • Seymour Nebenzahl

Unit production manager

  • Leo Meyer

Location manager

  • Walter Zeiske

Original distributor

  • Vereinigte Star-Film GmbH (Berlin)

Shoot

    • 01.02.1930 - 18.05.1930: Petershagen bei Frankfurt/Oder
Format:
35mm, 1:1,19
Video/Audio:
s/w, Tobis-Klangfilm
Censorship/Age rating:

Zensur (DE): 13.03.1933

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 23.05.1930, Berlin, Capitol

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Westfront 1918
  • Untertitel Vier von der Infanterie

Versions

Original

Format:
35mm, 1:1,19
Video/Audio:
s/w, Tobis-Klangfilm
Censorship/Age rating:

Zensur (DE): 13.03.1933

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 23.05.1930, Berlin, Capitol

Prüffassung

Duration:
2401 m, 88 min
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 10.01.1957, 13678, ab 16 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Duration:
8 Akte, 2672 m, 98 min
Censorship/Age rating:

Zensur (DE): 21.05.1930, B.25961, Jugendverbot;
Zensur (DE): 27.04.1933, O.06490, Verbot

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