# All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

> Young German recruits enter World War I believing in patriotic glory and discover only exhaustion, mutilation, grief, and the machinery of futile violence.

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## Facts

- Runtime: 133 min
- Genres: Drama, War
- Director: Lewis Milestone
- Cast: Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy, Ben Alexander, Scott Kolk, Owen Davis Jr., Walter Rogers
- TMDB rating: 7.8/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020629/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: extreme
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: graphic
- Mood: harrowing, bleak, somber, serious historical viewing, classic cinema study

## Synopsis

A haunting portrayal of the horrors of war through the eyes of young soldiers.

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