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All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War I by their jingoistic teacher and sent to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
1 December 1902, Peoria, Illinois, USA
13 August 1876, Surrey, England, UK
16 May 1905, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
8 August 1865, Tottenham, London, England, UK
4 July 1902, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
18 June 1871, Brooklyn, New York, USA
September 25, 1905 in Teplitz-Schönau, Austria-Hungary [now Teplice, Czech Republic]
19 November 1902, Dallas, Texas, USA
10 July 1892, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
December 27, 1877 in Copenhagen, Denmark
11 October 1884, Hamburg, Germany
2 May 1908, Los Angeles, California, USA
February 20, 2015
The performances are haunting.
October 16, 2007
Deserves its reputation as a classic.
May 25, 2012
The rawness of the audio eradicates any lingering notion that war is romantic or exciting, and at times suggests the very battered eardrums of those engaged in combat.
February 11, 2013
The production values are incredibly high and not just for the time. And as the movie has aged and the film has gone grainier and the flickers increased, it almost adds to the effect.
January 13, 2014
The performances are also exemplary, but it is primarily a film of great moments -- the climactic sequence of the young conscript reaching out for a butterfly in the sun -- that, once seen, are never forgotten.
May 22, 2012
The despair-and the artistry-is breathtaking.
February 11, 2013
[A] fascinating, innovative early talkie.
October 16, 2007
A harrowing, gruesome, morbid tale of war.
June 24, 2006
The film's strength now derives less from its admittedly powerful but highly simplistic utterances about war as waste, than from a generally excellent set of performances (Ayres especially) and an almost total reluctance to follow normal plot structure.
February 17, 2015
So magnificent, so powerful, that it hardly behooves mere words to tell of its heart-rending appeal, of its dramatic fire, its breath-taking battle shots in which men stab and kill each other, for the glory of war.
March 24, 2014
It not only seeks to straddle the high dramatic of the silent era with the more staid aesthetics of the sound era, but it seeks to reveal wartime horror to such a heart-wrenching degree that it will undo war altogether.