All Quiet on the Western Front

Name: All Quiet on the Western Front
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1930-04-29
Duration: 133 min
Rating: 7.757

★ 7,8 /10 (972 Votes)

1930 EN 133 min

Overview

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.

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Release date

29/04/1930

Votes

972

Popularity

8.0

They left for war as boys never to return as men.

Genres

Drama War

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

133 min

Budget

$1,448,864

Revenue

$3,270,000

Louis Wolheim

Stanislaus 'Kat' Katczinsky

Lew Ayres

Paul Bäumer

John Wray

Himmelstoss

Arnold Lucy

Kantorek

Ben Alexander

Franz Kemmerich

Scott Kolk

Leer

Owen Davis Jr.

Peter

Walter Rogers

Behn

William Bakewell

Albert Kropp

Russell Gleason

Mueller

Richard Alexander

Westhus

Harold Goodwin

Detering

Slim Summerville

Tjaden

G. Pat Collins

Bertinck

Beryl Mercer

Paul's Mother

Edmund Breese

Herr Meyer

Ernie Adams

2nd Medic Orderly (uncredited)

Marion Clayton Anderson

Anna Bäumer (uncredited)

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Poupée Andriot

French Girl (uncredited)

Vince Barnett

Assistant Cook (uncredited)

Daisy Belmore

Frau Kemmerick (uncredited)

Glen Boles

Young Soldier (uncredited)

Heinie Conklin

Joseph Hammacher (uncredited)

Yola d'Avril

Suzanne (uncredited)

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Renée Damonde

French Girl (uncredited)

Arthur Gardner

Student (uncredited)

Raymond Griffith

Gérard Duval (uncredited)

Ellen Hall

Young Girl (uncredited)

William Irving

Ginger - the Cook (uncredited)

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Frederick Kohner

Minor Role (uncredited)

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Frank Leichtfried

Minor Role (uncredited)

Tom London

1st Medic Orderly (uncredited)

Bertha Mann

Sister Libertine (uncredited)

Joan Marsh

Poster Girl (uncredited)

Edwin Maxwell

Herr Bäumer (uncredited)

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Jack McHugh

Schoolboy (uncredited)

Maurice Murphy

Soldier (uncredited)

Robert Parrish

Schoolboy (uncredited)

Bodil Rosing

Mother of Hospital Patient (uncredited)

Wolfgang Staudte

Minor Role (uncredited)

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Jack Sutherland

Minor Role (uncredited)

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David Tyrell

Soldier (uncredited)

Dorothy Vernon

Charwoman (uncredited)

Fred Zinnemann

German Soldier / French Ambulance Driver (uncredited)

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This very dark, intense film about the horror and brutality of war focuses on a group of young German soldiers fighting at the front during WWI. It's brilliant, raw, and compellingly honest. Lew Ayers, only 20 years old at the time, does a very fine job. Based on Remarque's famous book, this is a classic, stunning piece of cinema, which earned Best Picture and Director Oscars. The ending is haunting and very disturbing, and it will stay with you long afterward. Would I recommend? Yes, but for more mature audiences who can really take it in.

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FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://www.msbreviews.com/movie-reviews/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-spoiler-free-review "All Quiet on the Western Front is, by far, one of the best films of 2022! An emotionally powerful anti-war epic that portrays WWI in a cruel, merciless, disturbing, truly traumatic manner through the gradually more sensitive eyes of a German soldier. A two-and-a-half-hour tense, brutal, extremely captivating runtime, primarily due to one of the most astonishing cinematographies in recent years - Roger Deakins would be proud of James Friend's masterful work, which deserv…

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