All Quiet on the Western Front

7.8/10 from 290 votes

Director: Lewis Milestone

Date of release: 29 Apr 1930

Description

A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I. Together with several other young German soldiers, he experiences the horrors of war, such evil of which he had not conceived of when signing up to fight. They eventually become sad, tormented, and confused of their purpose.

Extra

Budget	1250000 $
Runtime	133 minute
Producer	Universal Pictures
Language	English Français
Themes	death friendship soldier combat world war i war disillusion german boot camp mud pre-code battlefield patriotism germany army atrocity steel helmet warfare anti war trenches young soldier battlefield trauma
Actors	John Wray Richard Alexander Edmund Breese Lew Ayres Slim Summerville Raymond Griffith William Bakewell G. Pat Collins Beryl Mercer Harold Goodwin Ben Alexander Louis Wolheim Yola d'Avril Arnold Lucy Owen Davis Jr. Russell Gleason Joan Marsh Scott Kolk Fred Zinnemann Walter Rogers