All Quiet on the Western Front DVD | 1930 Version | Region 4 & 2

Adapted from a novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet On The Western Front follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War 1 by their jingoistic teacher. The story is told entirely through the experiences of the young German recruits and highlights the tragedy of war through the eyes of individuals. As the boys witness death and mutilation all around them, any preconceptions about “the enemy” and the “rights and wrongs” of the conflict disappear, leaving them angry and bewildered. This is highlighted in the scene where Paul mortally wounds a French soldier and then weeps bitterly as he fights to save his life while trapped in a shell crater with the body. The film is not about heroism but about drudgery and futility and the gulf between the concept of war and the actuality.
Actors: Fred Zinnemann, David Tyrell, Jack Sutherland, Wolfgang Staudte, Robert Parrish, Maurice Murphy, Edwin Maxwell, Joan Marsh, Bertha Mann, Tom London, William Irving, Ellen Hall, Raymond Griffith, Arthur Gardner, Yola d’Avril, Rene Damonde, Heinie Conklin, Marion Clayton, Glen Boles, Daisy Belmore, Vince Barnett, Poupe Andriot, Edmund Breese, Beryl Mercer, G. Pat Collins, Russell Gleason, William Bakewell, Walter Rogers, Owen Davis Jr., Scott Kolk, Ben Alexander, Arnold Lucy, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Bodil Rosing, Zasu Pitts, Lew Ayres, Richard Alexander, Harold Goodwin, Slim Summerville
Minutes: 128
Format: DVD Region 4 & 2