A look in the trenches of World War I
“Westfront 1918,&#34;  made in Germany in 1930, is one of the first films to challenge what governments wanted the populace to know about war. The film makes clear the difference between propaganda and the actual, brutality of war.<br /><br />The movie focuses on four infantrymen stationed in France —the Bavarian, Karl, the Lieutenant and the Student. Director G.W. Pabst stays with this group, though sometimes the unpredictability of war takes them in different directions. The Student falls for a French girl, Karl goes on leave and discovers life at home is not easy. At the front, death is an everyday occurrence. Many of the actors were veterans of World War I, then known as the Great War.<br /><br />This was Pabst’s first sound film, a realistic depiction of the nightmare that scarred a generation in Germany and beyond. Setting many scenes in the trenches in the final months of the war, Pabst illustrates the harrowing ordeals of battle as the men are worn down in body and morale by firefights, shelling and the distillation that greets them on the homefront.<br /><br />A sequence in the middle of the film features soldiers going to watch  a group of entertainers consisting of a clown, a musician and a dancer. It serves to break the tension of war, but goes on far too long.<br /><br />Made the same year by director Lewis Milestone, “All Quiet on the Western Front” also dealt with the Great War and its futility, winning the Best Picture Academy Award.<br /><br />Bonus materials on the Blu-ray release include an hour-long French television broadcast of World War I veterans reacting to the film in 1969; interview from 2016 with film scholar Jan-Christopher Horak; new restoration demonstration; brief audio interview from 1988 with editor Jean Oser; and a critical essay. The film is in German and French, with English subtitles.
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : G. W. Pabst brought the war movie into a new era with his first sound film, a mercilessly realistic depiction of the nightmare that scarred a generation, in the director s native Germany and beyond. Digging into the trenches with four infantrymen stationed in France in the final months of World War I, Pabst illustrates the harrowing ordeals of battle with unprecedented naturalism, as the men are worn away in body and spirit by firefights, shelling, and the disillusion that greets them on the home front. Long unavailable, the newly restored Westfront 1918 is a visceral, sobering antiwar statement that is as urgent today as when it was made.BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack- Hour-long French television broadcast of World War I veterans reacting to the film in 1969- 2016 interview with film scholar Jan-Christopher Horak- New restoration demonstration featuring Martin Koerber and Julia Wallmüller of the Deutsche Kinemathek- New English subtitle translation- PLUS: An essay by author and critic Luc Sante.