All Quiet on the Western Front
At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to bear, and as his friends die or become gravely wounded, Paul questions the sanity of fighting over a few hundreds yards of war-torn countryside.
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"All Quiet on the Western Front" (1979) is an anti-war television film directed by Delbert Mann, based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque. It follows the story of Paul Bäumer, a young German soldier who experiences the brutal realities of World War I, leading to profound disillusionment with the war.
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- Director
- Delbert Mann
- Starring
- Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Ian Holm, Patricia Neal, Paul Mark Elliott, David Bradley, Matthew Evans
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