Film
Westfront 1918
- Director
- G.W. Pabst
- Certificate
- PG
- Running Time
- 95 mins
Pandora’s Box and Diary of a Lost Girl director G.W. Pabst turned his attention to war with this 1930 drama in which a German infantryman returns temporarily from the trenches of France, only to find that poverty and degradation are just as bad at home as they are on the front line.
This has been variously described as “one of the greatest anti-war films of the twentieth century” and “cowardly defeatism”. Mind you, the latter description was supplied by one Joseph Goebbels, who tried to ban the film. It’s presented by the Bristol Radical History Group and introduced by Humberto Perez-Blanco, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at UWE
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