Fiction
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Universal City, CA : Distibuted by Universal Studios Home Entertainment
©2007
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1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, black&white ; 4 3/4 in
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Film restored by The Library of Congress Motion Picture Conservation Center
Special features: Introduction [by Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies] (3 min.); Trailer (3 min.)
"This story is neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war. . ." Title screens. 1914. War has broken out in Europe. A group of German college students are convinced to enlist after their teacher, Professor Kantorek, gives an impassioned speech about the honor of dying for their Fatherland. Paul Bäumer--sent to the Western Front where the fighting is most severe--is soon stripped of illusions about war being glorious. There is nothing but fear, pain, and the randomness of death. Paul is the sole survivor of his group and when he returns home, he denounces the war and his professor. Returned to the action, Paul tries to cope with the incessant fear that eats away at a soldier's insides, turning them hollow and empty
Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1930
Based on the novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque
Cinematographer, Arthur Edeson ; film editor, Edgar Adams ; synchronization & score, David Broekman ; art directors, Charles D. Hall, W.R. Schmitt
Louis Wolheim (Kat), Lewis Ayres (Paul), John Wray (Himmelstoss), Arnold Lucy (Kantorek), Ben Alexander (Kemmerick), Scott Kolk (Leer), Owen Davis Jr. (Peter), Walter Browne Rogers (Behn), William Bakewell (Albert), Russell Gleason (Mueller), Richard Alexander (Westhus), Harold Goodwin (Detering), 'Slim' Summerville (Tjaden), Pat Collins (Bertinck), Beryl Mercer (Paul's Mother), Edmund Breese (Herr Meyer)
MPAA Rating: Not rated
DVD format; Region 1, NTSC; 2.0 Dolby Digital mono.; full frame presentation, aspect ratio 1.33:1
Closed-captioned in English with optional subtitles in English SDH (subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing) and optional French subtitles
Named to the National Film Registry in 1990 by the Library of Congress
Winner, 1930 Academy Awards for Best Director--Lewis Milestone; Best Picture--Universal Studios