Quatre de l'infanterie
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.
With : Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessl, Hans Moebus, Claus Clausen, Jackie Monnier
Screenplay : Ladislaus Vajda, d'après le roman d'Ernst Johannsen
Image : Charles Métain, Fritz Arno Wagner
Editing : W.L. Bagier, Jean Oser, Marc Sorkin
Music : Alexander Laszlo
Decors : Ernö Metzner
Sound : W.L. Bagier, Karl Brodmerkel
Screenplay : Ladislaus Vajda, d'après le roman d'Ernst Johannsen
Image : Charles Métain, Fritz Arno Wagner
Editing : W.L. Bagier, Jean Oser, Marc Sorkin
Music : Alexander Laszlo
Decors : Ernö Metzner
Sound : W.L. Bagier, Karl Brodmerkel
Production : Seymour Nebenzal
"With this pacifist film, Pabst makes his talkie debut. Often associated with Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front, Warfront 1918 - Vier von der Infanteire offers a near-documentary approach where music is replaced by an obsessing soundtrack of guns and bombs interspersed with rare dialogues."