All Quiet On The Western Front (DVD)

Description: Genre: War & Western - War / Theatrical Release: 1930 / Director: Lewis Milestone / Actors: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim ... more

All Quiet On The Western Front (DVD) ... ... / DVD released 20 February, 2006 at Universal Pictures UK / Features of the DVD: Black & White, PAL

Newest Review: ... opportunities, however the negative side is constantly brought back to the viewer’s attention and manages to be increasingly ... more

... effective. This is especially true when the young recruits are sent to supplement Baumer’s unit, and their lack of experience leads to them falling into deadly gas and fatally panicking in the flimsy underground trenches. Every memorable aspect of the novel is brought to the screen, from the nationalistic teacher urging Baumer and his classmates to join up “for the Fatherland” to the main character’s empty feelings on his brief return home. REMARQUE German author Erich Maria Remarque’s ‘All Quiet on the West...more

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All Quiet On The Western Front (DVD): The Consciouness of the Front (922 words)
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The second film adaptation of the book of the same name, 1979’s ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ is essentially a more modern adaptation of the early 1931 film that now looks, due to its status as an early ‘talkie’ with over-exaggerated acting, quite dated. The legacy of the First World War in film, novels and poetry still serves to remind successive generations of the errors made in the past, and this film takes a reasonably balanced and very personal look at the effects of the war on the human body and soul, based on true events that many soldiers of the past were doubtless all too familiar with. PRESENTATION OF WAR The film begins ... Read the complete review

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