From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Westfront 1918 (German: Vier von der Infanterie) is a German film, set mostly in the trenches of the Western Front during World War I. It was directed in 1930 by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, from the novel Vier von der Infanterie by Ernst Johannsen, and deals with the impact of the war on a group of infantrymen. It featured an ensemble cast led by screen veterans Fritz Kampers and Gustav Diessl; Diessl had been a prisoner of war for a year during the war. The film bears resemblance to its close contemporary, the All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), an American production, although it has a bleaker tone. It was particularly pioneering in its early use of sound - it was Pabst's first "talkie" - in that Pabst managed to record live audio during complex tracking shots through the trenches.

Movie rating: 7.4 / 10 (1773)

Directed by: Georg Wilhelm Pabst - Ernst Johannsen - Ladislaus Vajda - Peter Martin Lampel

Writer credits: Ernst Johannsen - Ladislaus Vajda

Cast: Fritz Kampers - Gustav Diessl - Hans-Joachim Moebis - Hans-Joachim Möbis - Claus Clausen

AKA: Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie, Comrades of 1918

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