All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Lewis Milestone's adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's anti-war novel is a masterpiece whose power to disturb remains undiminished by the passage of time. The film stars Lew Ayres as the young Paul Bauman, who, along with a group of his teenaged classmates, are conscripted into the German army during WWI. The youths quickly realize that the patriotic hogwash they had been fed by their schoolmaster has absolutely has nothing to do with the horror they observe and experience on the front lines.

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One of the most powerful anti-war statements ever put on film, this gut-wrenching story concerns a group of friends who join the Army during World War I and are assigned to the Western Front, where their fiery patriotism is quickly turned to horror and misery by the harsh realities of combat. Director Lewis Milestone pioneered the use of the sweeping crane shot to capture a ghastly battlefield panorama of death and mud, and the cast, led by Lew Ayres, is terrific. It's hard to pick a favorite scene, but the finale, as Ayres stretches from his trench to catch a butterfly, is one of the most devastating sequences o...
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f the decade. The film won Oscars for Best Picture and for Milestone's direction -- and trivia buffs should note that the actors were coached by future luminary George Cukor, while Ayres became a conscientious objector in World War II. The Road Back (1937) followed, and the film was remade for television in 1979.
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Aan het begin van de Eerste Wereldoorlog, wordt een groepje Duitse scholieren waaronder Paul Baumer, omgepraat door hun leraar om het vaderland te dienen. Eerst denken ze dat het een spannend avontuur zal worden, maar al gauw verandert dat. Ze zien de gruwelijke werkelijkheid van het oorlogvoeren, en het beeld van 'de vijand' en 'goed en kwaad' vervaagt. Paul ziet zijn klasgenoten een voor een sterven.

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