All quiet on the Western Front [videorecording] /
A Universal International presentation ; directed by Lewis Milestone ; produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr. ; adaptation Maxwell Anderson ; dialogue by Maxwell Anderson and George Abbott ; screen story by George Abbott.
- UK : Universal Pictures, c2006.
- 1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., b&w ; 12 cm.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1930. Based on the novel Im Westen nichts Neues, by Erich Maria Remarque.
Director of photography, Arthur Edeson. Director of photography, Arthur Edeson.
Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Slim Summerville, William Bakewell.
A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the horror of World War I. Paul Baumer and his friends, a group of German schoolboys, are pursuaded to enlist by their very patriotic teacher. As they witness the death and mutilation all around them, boyhood ideas about the glory of battle disappear, leaving them angry, frightened, and horrified.
BBFC rating: PG. Contains intense war scenes and moderate violence. IFC rating: PG.
DVD, region 2 and 4; aspect ratio 1.33:1; Dolby digital 2.0.
Winner of two Academy Awards including Best Picture.
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World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Western Front--Drama Soldiers--Germany--Drama