All Quiet on the Western Front

1930

Action / Drama / War

58
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 89% · 91 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 89% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 8.1/10 10 71476 71.5K

friendship army based on novel or book germany disillusion world war i

Plot summary

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.

Director

Lewis Milestone Photo
Lewis Milestone

Top cast

Louis Wolheim Photo
Louis Wolheim as Kat
William Bakewell Photo
William Bakewell as Albert
Edmund Breese Photo
Edmund Breese as Herr Meyer
Fred Zinnemann Photo
Fred Zinnemann as German soldier / French ambulance driver
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.2 GB
1280*936
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
2 hr 13 min
Seeds 13
2.22 GB
1476*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 13 min
Seeds 57

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Xstal 9 / 10

'Every Day a Year, Every Night a Century'...

The horrors of war, The Great War, seldom better summarised by: 'It's dirty and painful to die for your country, when it comes dying for your country it's better not to die at all. There are millions out there dying for their countries, and what good does it do?'. And yet the wars continue, death and destruction sustained, lessons seldom learnt, the cries remain unheard.
Reviewed by george.schmidt 10 / 10

War is Hell - The Gold Standard of the Anti-War/War Film!

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930) **** The first - and some say best - war film (and film about war - there is a difference) is still the gold standard for showing the perilous hell men face in war with this character-heavy look at the after-effects of a group of gung-ho students who are goaded into enlisting to fight for the fatherland - Germany - without question and tragically paying for it with literally their lives. Based on German writer Erich Maria Ramarque's novel - with six credited screenwriters including future filmmaker George Abbott - and an uncredited Lewis Milestone - the film's director - and winner of Best Director and Best Picture among its four including the aforementioned screenplay adaptation and the beautifully shot cinematography by Arthur Edeson. With a star-making performance of freshly scrubbed, boy- next-door charm and idealism-dashed chutzpah by Lew Ayres as the green recruit whose loss of innocence still stings while his mentor and world-weary mentor Louis Wolheim - terrific - in fact both should've been nominated for their acting - acts as the voice of reason (and doom). For the film vaults: the chilling battle amongst a decrepit graveyard and the penultimate image of beauty being literally destroyed as a shocking symbol of innocence truly crushed. One of the most important anti-war films ever; a must see for every serious film-goer.
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