# Westfront 1918 (1930)

Westfront 1918 is a German war film, set mostly in the trenches of the Western Front during World War I. It was directed in 1930 by G. W. Pabst, from a screenplay by Ladislaus Vajda based on the novel Vier von der Infanterie by Ernst Johannsen. The film shows the effect of the war on a group of infantrymen portrayed by an ensemble cast led by screen veterans Fritz Kampers and Gustav Diessl. The film bears a very strong resemblance to its close contemporary All Quiet on the Western Front, an American production, although it has a much bleaker tone, consistent with Pabst's New Objectivity work through the late 1920s.

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1930
- By: G. W. Pabst
- Genres: Drama, War
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/westfront.-1918.1930.de.subs.-720p)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Made from: Vier von der Infanterie, Ernst Johannsen's book of 1929: free in the United States, as it was first published in 1929, and its US term of 95 years has ended (17 U.S.C. §304(b), §305).
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/westfront.-1918.1930.de.subs.-720p?play=1)