Storyline

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.—Jim Beaver

Plot Keywords

world war one, adulterous wife, steel helmet, german soldier, french soldier, comrade, infantry, military officer, trench warfare, german army, husband wife relationship, killed in action, attack, french army, german abroad, shelter, dead soldier, year 1918, singer, shell shock

Short Review

The thinking man's All Quiet on the Western Front. A coruscating portrait of the transcendent desolation caused by war.

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