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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 Georg Wilhelm Pabst, from the novel Vier von der Infanterie by Ernst Johannsen and shows the effect of the war on a group of infantrymen. It has an ensemble cast led by screen veterans Fritz Kampers and Gustav Diessl; Diessl had been a prisoner of war for a year.
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Directed by | Georg Wilhelm Pabst |
Produced by | Seymour Nebenzal |
Screenplay by | Ladislaus Vajda |
Based on | Four Infantrymen on the Western Front by Ernst Johannsen |
Starring | Fritz Kampers Gustav Diessl Hans-Joachim Moebis Claus Clausen |
Music by | Alexander Laszlo |
Cinematography | Fritz Arno Wagner Charles Métain |
Edited by | Jean Oser |
Distributed by | Nero-Film |
Release date |
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Running time | 96 mins |
Country | Weimar Republic |
Language | German |
The film bears a resemblance to its close contemporary, the All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), an American production, although it has a bleaker tone, consistent with Pabst's New Objectivity work through the late 1920s. It was particularly pioneering in its early use of sound—it was Pabst's first "talkie"—in that Pabst managed to record live audio during complex tracking shots through the trenches.
Westfront 1918 was a critical success when it was released, although it was often shown in truncated form. With the rise of National Socialism, the German authorities quickly judged the film to be unsuitable for the public for its obvious pacifism and for its denunciation of war, which propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels labelled as "cowardly defeatism". Some shots from the film were used for scene-setting purposes in a 1937 BBC Television adaptation of the play Journey's End.
Screenplay
France 1918; in the last months of the First World War, four infantrymen—the Bavarian, a young man known as 'the student' (Der Student), Karl and the lieutenant—spend a few rest-days behind the front. The student falls in love with the French peasant girl, Yvette. Back at the front, the four suffer again the everyday hardships of war; dirt, trenches and danger of death. The Bavarian, Karl and the lieutenant become trapped when part of the trench collapses and the student digs them out. Later they are mistakenly fired upon by their artillery due to a misjudgement of distance and are again saved by the student, who as a messenger risks his life to relay instructions to the soldiers setting the firing range of the artillery.
Karl receives leave, returning to his starving home town and promptly catches his wife in bed with a butcher. Embittered and unreconciled, he returns to the front. In his absence, the student is stabbed in a melee; his body lying in the mud of a shell-hole, only one hand sticking out. An offensive by the Allies begins, supported by tanks, and a mass of French infantry breaks through the thin German lines. During the defensive battle against the French, Karl and the Bavarian are seriously wounded, covering the remaining members of the group. The lieutenant has a nervous breakdown and falls into insanity. Shouting "Hurrah" non-stop, he salutes a pile of corpses. He is admitted to the field hospital together with Karl and the Bavarian. While the lieutenant is being carried though the hospital, many injured soldiers can be seen. In a fever, Karl sees his wife again and dies with the words "We are all to blame!". He is covered up, but his hand is hanging out the side. A wounded Frenchman lying beside him takes the hand in his and says "comrades, not enemies". The final message "End" is displayed with a question mark.
- Fritz Kampers as The Bavarian
- Gustav Diessl as Karl
- Hans-Joachim Moebis as The Student
- Claus Clausen as The Lieutenant
- Jackie Monnier as Yvette
- Hanna Hoessrich as Karl's Wife
- Else Heller as Karl's Mother
- Carl Ballhaus as Journeyman butcher
- Wladimir Sokoloff as Purser
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- Apart from anything, everything I saw in the winter, a sound film these days was my most deeply felt: because he exposes the face of war for non-participants in the rudest. The impression drowned weeks, months. One should perform every New Year's Day, once each year beginning; in every village, in every school; ex officio by law. What are plays " (Alfred Kerr in Berliner Tageblatt in 1930, quoted in: vol. Man / Hembus 19)?
- The urge to truthful reproduction of horror that prevails here outgrown two scenes, already almost exceed the limit of the expressible. One: a single battle ends with an infantryman is nipped in the swamp in front of everyone. (The fact that you can still see protrude from the bubbling mud later a dead hand, is unnecessary sensationalism.) The other is the front military hospital in the church with the maimed, nurses and doctors who can barely operate their craft farther from exhaustion. It is as if medieval torture pictures come to life " (Siegfried Kracauer in Frankfurter Zeitung in 1930, quoted in: vol. Man / Hembus, p 21).
- Western Front 1918 "is the only war denunciatory film, which denied any complacency of the army - in this respect it is a cleaner work than that of Milestone (not to speak of the discouraging complicity with the ideal soldiers that are found repeatedly in the French films this time) " (Roger Boussinot: '.' L'Encyclopédie du Cinema Paris 1967).
- The War: "Westfront 1918"...refuses...nor the most secret glorification of war for the establishment "of human probation." He appears as the perfection of horror that he is. Breaks gradually the sense context in which it also for the war was initially driven for four infantrymen. They appear initially as actors, so then wins the anonymous power of the war, more and more power over them until their identity completely disintegrates: in madness or in an absurd death. ... In artless, slow and uneven rides the camera scans the battlefield and reveals the epic succession the horror. Whose political cause is of course out of sight of the camera '(Ulrich Gregor, Enno Patalas.' 'History of Film 1895–1939' 'Vol 1. Reinbek 1976, p... 141)
- Above all, the hulking staging and presentation of the native family dramas and the sentimental evocation of a universal brotherhood disturb in a film...impressed by his hard realism with which he the monotony and the terrors of the grave war from the German perspective . portrays " (Liz-Anne Bawden (Ed.): '.' rororo Filmlexikon Vol 3. Reinbek 1978, p 761f.).
- With Western Front in 1918, "we have the first of the three sound films in front of us, with whom G. W. Pabst ... his glittering career began in silent film ... crowned before he fell into the mediocrity and opportunism. "'" (Vol man / Hembus 19)
- List of German films 1919-1933
- Christa Bandmann, Joe Hembus: Western Front 1918. In: Classics of German sound film. Goldmann, Munich, 1980, pp. 19–21, ISBN 3-442-10207-3.
- Christiane Mückenberger: Western Front 1918. In: Günther Dahlke, Günther Karl (ed.): German Feature Films from the Beginnings to 1933. A Film Leader. Henschel Verlag, 2nd edition, Berlin 1993, pp. 221 ff. ISBN 3-89487-009-5.
- Marc Vanden Berghe: La mémoire impossible. Westfront 1918 de G. W. Pabst. Grande Guerre, soldats, automates. Le film et sa problématique vus par la "Petite Illustration" (1931), Brussel 2001.
- Four of the infantry. Their last days on the Western Front (1918 Ernst Johannsen) (Audiobook) (ed. by Andre Kagelmann & Reinhold None), ISBN href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-939988-03-8" title="Special:BookSour
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