The story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Fritz KampersDer Bayer
Gustav DiesslKarl
Hans-Joachim MoebisDer Student
Claus ClausenDer Leutnant
Gustav PüttjerDer Hamburger
Vladimir SokoloffProviantmeister
Jackie MonnierCast
Carl BallhausSchlachtergeselleExplore the crew
- Director
- G.W. Pabst
- Producer
- Seymour Nebenzal
- Editor
- Marc Sorkin
- Editor
- W.L. Bagier
- Original Music Composer
- Alexander Laszlo
- Screenplay
- Ladislaus Vajda
- Director of Photography
- Charles Métain
- Writer
- Peter Martin Lampel
- Editor
- Jean Oser
- Director of Photography
- Fritz Arno Wagner