Westfront 1918

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Westfront 1918 is German silent film director G.W. Pabst's 1930 film about World War I in Germany based on the novel Vier von der Infanterie by Ernst Johannsen. The film bears many resemblances to the American film All Quiet on the Western Front, but is far more bleak.

It was pioneering in the use of sound, in that it manages to record live sound during complex tracking shots through the trenches.

Some shots from the film were used for scene-setting purposes in a 1937 BBC Television adaptation of the play Journey's End.

[edit] See also

• List of films made in Weimar Germany

[edit] External links

• Journey's End at the Internet Movie Database
• Senses of Cinema Article on the film