Released Date:
1930-05-23
Languages:
German
Countries:
Germany
Runtime:
75 min
Rated:
TV-PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (746 Reviews)
Director:
Georg Wilhelm PabstErnst Johannsen (novel)
Ladislaus Vajda (screenplay)
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.
Released Date:
1931-11-17
Languages:
French, German
Countries:
Germany, France
Runtime:
93 min
Rated:
TV-14
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (641 Reviews)
Director:
Georg Wilhelm PabstGenres:
DramaPeter Martin Lampel
Karl Otten
Gerbert Rappaport
Ladislaus Vajda
Lèon Werth (French dialogue)
A old German mine was split in two after the end of WWI because of the new border. In the Frenchpart a fire breaks out. The German minwers send a rescue group in, helping their French comrades. A group of three old German miners, who where not treaten friendly at a French inn the night before, start their private rescue through an old way, where since 1919 the border is. After all survivors are rescued, there's a big party with speeches about friendship between Frensh and Germans, while border police closes the old way in the mine.
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