3D 1080p WW1 Assault - All Quiet on the Western Front 1930
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- All Quiet on the Western Front was ranked the seventh best film in the epic genre.
In June 2009, an announcement was made that All Quiet on the Western Front will be remade with new storyline. The third remake is scheduled for release sometime in 2013 with Daniel Radcliffe starring as Bäumer.
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Imagine people watching this brutality on the screen in 1930 and thinking, "Thank God we won't have to go through a World War again! That was horrible!"
Time traveller in the crowd: Yeah... About that...
That was a huge factor in France, U.K., and Germany not moving on each other from the declaration of war in September 1939 until May 1940. France and Britain were rapidly defeated, with France occupied and the English driven straight into the ocean. Neither side attempted to invade across the narrow English Channel where you can see France from England until the Americans and Canadians came across the entire ocean 4 years later to invade. The U.S. and Canada constantly sent food and munitions across the ocean those 4 years to keep England alive, but neither England not Germany dared go across the Channel to invade the other because of fears of being once again bogged down.
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Looks like certain countries are itching for WW3 now.
@@adrianintheweb indeed my friend, it's sad that humanity is repeating it's past mistakes. I hope our Russian and Ukrainian friends are safe rn
The funny thing is, this was shot only 12 years after WW1 ended. There must have been extras in this film who actually fought in the war. It’s madness.
All 2000 extras were WWI veterans: Germans mostly, also Czechs Hungarians etc. none american because the military forbade wearing a foreign uniform (the uniforms in the film were authentic imported from Europe)
the not so funny thing is that there was. Nearly every on scene extra was a German veteran
The funny thting about this is: The veterans made up a large majority of actors in this film.
The movie was made of vets mostly
@@iceswallow7717 they only had 150 haha
Ninety one years later, those hands on the barbwire still make this one of the most horrific battle scenes ever filmed.
I literally read this 1 second before watching the scene lol
To think there were even more gruesome moments in the book they didn't add too.
Apparently the hands were a story from a German extra on set who had fought in the war.
@olive Who cares?
@olive Were talking about ww1 here. We dont care about some person talking about "his sister" who is possibly lying since you have revealed that you just want people to be pissed up. So Have it.
I'm honestly quite surprised by the level of detail and choreography of this, insanely impressive this was made in 1930.
Agreed! I have played BF 1 depicting WW1 battles but I was absolutely scared watching this. Amazing fir 1930
Also amazing it was done from a German point of view.
@@levethane it's because the book from 1929 is written by a German ww1 veteran (I didn't know either)
This is probably the most accurate representation of WW1 trench warfare ever made on film.
Recently watched the 2022 version, although impressed I came across so many positive accounts of the 1930 original with many saying the older film being the best. (Must find the complete film) Looking at this short clip in several scenes it would appear live explosions were evident! They didn’t do H&S those days it seems. The author of the book did a follow up novel, both were burnt by Hitlers followers in the 1930s for the antiwar content. Some philosopher did say that where you burn books there next follows the burning of people. Pity Remarque’s novels were not read first before burning at the time.
Fun fact: ALL extras in this scene were actual ww1 veterans, 2000 of them
Imagine all the PTSD
Some
So they had to relive it all again. Can you say PTSD
@@paleo704: I can say shell shock like they would have and not some long-winded, convoluted, establishment terminology.
That IS fun! :-D :-(
Like many of his generation, my grandfather was up to his neck in this shared nightmare. He survived 3 years, 1915-1918, in the front line trenches of the Carso and multiple battles along the Piave. Of the original group he went in with, he was the only one to survive the war. Most of his friends were killed. The horrific memories of that brutal front, would haunt him for the rest of his life.
When ever I feel that "nothing is going right" and "life isn't fair", or I'm having a "bad day", I remember my grandfather, and no matter how bad things get, I feel fortunate, because it could be a whole lot worse.
This authentic battle recreation/scene is an excellent reminder of that.
People of the past were way stronger than us today. Society today whines about every stupid “ uncomfortable inconvenience “. How soft we’ve become.
@@drussellu.s.1034 Were they now? Not so strong it appears. They died of disease and there was ptsd and suicide back then as well.
But he didn’t have to experience this. This was all the doings of a few powerful men. Life isn’t fair, but it doesn’t have to be *this* unfair. We can always do better and prevent more tragedies with civic involvement.
We don’t have to accept to be treated like this. It is not weakness to turn your rifle toward the powerful people that sit in their palaces trying to make you do their bidding.
Your statement reminded me of a Holocaust survivor that said (and I'm paraphrasing), "I shouldn't even be here, every day I'm alive is a gift. Every day I'm alive, after I was released from the concentration camp, is like a new life, like I was born on that day..."
I read somewhere that many WW1 vets were cast as extras in this film. Imagine the flashbacks...
Having worked on a few sets, its super easy to tell it isnt real, and often vets get annoyed at being "protected " on said sets "I live this every day and night, you're movie isn't shit to what's *taps head * in here "
@@Captainkebbles1392 what?
@@EvoVerseBeyondtomorrow13 most veterans who are on a film set during battles scenes laugh at or are borderline offended at the idea of movie set would give them a hard time. Most common remarks being they've seen and been through the real thing, it is in their nightmares and thought so the idea a movie set with all it's dressing is gonna cause a combat vet issued is laughable to them
@@Captainkebbles1392 but this is a long time ago, and if of course it’s not going to be like in the brain, it’s from a camera, also if you look at actual ww1 footage then this looks really accurate, mainly because this type of warfare was very fast
@@macvadda2318 it's a movie set, what the camera sees is entirely different than what they were seeing.
Without modern CGI, effects and sound they were able to portray the brutality of the First World War
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@Nathan Lizarraga It was also because that this was made during the Pre-Code era, before a bunch of moral warriors, similar to the culture on both sides online, called out for film restrictions.
That was more horrific then CGI could convey.
to be fair, WWI didn't use CGI to make itself horrifying.
The parts at 2:37 and 6:00 that mirror each other is really what makes this scene so eerie.
Indeed, it also shows how the machine gun is the most feared weapon during WW1, a small team operating a machine gun can just completely wipe out a large group of soldiers charging into no man's land
@@julesbenedictcatalan4904 gas isnt more feared then machine gun?
@@jaras._.6931 Machine guns were mostly responsible for many casualties from both sides, that's why is feared more than the spicy air
@@julesbenedictcatalan4904 makes sence
For real I like how the camera moves the opposite direction for the second one like it’s mirroring the first
I've watched a lot of war movies, but I think this is still the greatest battle scene ever filmed. It captures the terror and brutality of it all incredibly well. The futility of men charging against barbed wire and machine guns, the utter chaos of legalized murder. The offensive, the counter-offensive, the counter counter-offensive. When it's all over, both armies are back right where they started, not an inch of ground gained, and thousands of young men dead.
The best "war is a total waste" scene ever.
No music as well. Only thing missing is the smell.
i dont know about that, its really cool but theres been some amazing war scenes
I agree, greatest ww1 war scene ever. The whine of the shells, the explosions, the machine gun fire sound more brutal and destructive than in any other movie I've watched. As a child this scared me shitless, and started me on a journey to learn, understand and collect items from the Great war.
@@skipads5141the auntie of my late father in law, was born around 1890 in the north of Italy. She also said that WW1 was the worst war ever. Soldiers still would go with bajonet on there weapons, but the other part already used airplanes to bomb. 😢. She called it the “Great War”. She was hurt during a bombardement and her fiancee was killed. As she was “promised” to him, she never married. She passed away with 104 years ❤
90 years later and it's still the most brutal battle scene ever filmed. To me even more disturbing that Saving Private Ryan.
I think I would have to say SPR's D-Day scene is more disturbing, at least when you find out the creators of that film got access to raw footage of the landings, so everything you see there- from soldiers with dismembered limbs to soldiers being mowed down before they can even step out of the landing craft- all happened in real life.
@@i-dislike-handles I know where you are coming from--certainly it can't compete in terms of realism and special effects. Ultimately I like the imagery better in this scene--there seems to be a sort of poetry about it, but the reality is that both scenes are masterful.
@@joncheskin I can see where you're coming from too, this scene is just as phenomenal as SPR's opening
Imaginar-se num combate como esse da grande guerra com o uso massificado de artilharia é metralhadoras, gás é arame farpado é principalmente com táticas antiquadas me dá calafrios de medo. Mas combater nas praia do dia D também não foi uma mãe de rosas! x.x
@@dhanilocardoso6155 Uma hora na Batalha de Verdun já supera todas as baixas no Dia D
5:12 that was some incredible shot
Yep, it surely was epic!
Now I know where Christopher Nolan got the idea for that shot in the beginning of Dunkirk
@@wille2112 yes
Yup.... in fact it's the exact reason I returned to this video after like five years lmao. I just watched another WWI movie and it reminded me of this...
That's what "barrage" literally means: An impenetrable curtain of iron and fire
Don't forget it was made only years after the war and a year after sound was introduced to the movies. What a masterpiece!
Actually three years after sound was made in movies
@@RandoFillipino1223
It's a matter of how 'sound movie' is defined.
The first (feature !) movie with some recorded dialog was of course 'The Jazzsinger'.
I guess, it was released in october 1927.
But it was still mostly a silent movie with only the songs of Al Jolson and a short dialog with his film mother filmed with sound.
The first 'all talkies' only came out in 1928.
Filming of AQOTWF started already in late 1929 !
So it is justified to mention it was made, when 'talkies' were just about one year old .
Thank you!
For anyonoe interested in the history of sound in movies here is a link to a very good documentary !
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@@gunterangel If you wanna be technical, Edison was expiriementing around with sound film since about 1904 iirc. There was another sound film in 1914 too.
For a 1930 film this battle scene was intense and realistic.
Still is
It still Is. I Just saw the remake of 2022 and Is quite difficult to choose the best portrayed one
@@ultras_fino_alla_morte watched the 2022 one, i still prefer the 1930's one. This scene alone is much better than the one in the 2022 version
The director and most of the extras here were actual WWI veterans
it has to be the lack of CGI and props, every person here is real, and it really feels like it depicts how absolutely chaotic a battle like this would be. soldiers stumbling over eachother, brutal hand to hand combat just doing what they can to survive
Just imagine running towards those machine guns, knowing you could be littered with bullets completely at random, just to enter a claustrophobic trench and engage in brutal hand to hand combat, where you could be stabbed or hacked to death, left bleeding out in the cold mud. To me, this scene is more scary than any horror film ever could be.
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2:32 This scene was based off an actual death of a French Soldier who was hit by the artillery killing him instantly as the smoke clears all was left was his hand gripping on the barbed wire and the person who witnessed it was a German World War I Veteran who was an extra in the movie production. The Veteran mentioned the incident and the director decided to portray it in the movie.
My Grandfather was 11 when the war started, he was too young to go, but his 9 older brothers enlisted including the second youngest (who was 16 and lied about his age) and none survived. His mum recieved a memorial plaque from the King as a token thank you..
And if Britain had not of gotten involved those 9 men and tens of millions of others would not have died
@@irishpatriotv2575 No, millions would still die, Germany would cut off suplies and eventually still attack a U.S. civilian ship. Plus, they would also kill many French men.
@@CivilProfessional millions would die, not tens of millions as not only would the war be over faster but ww2 would not have happened or atleast not in the same way
Also the Germans would have no reason to sink an American ship, without Royal navy support Germany would not be blockaded and there would be no need to resort to a uboat campaign
@@irishpatriotv2575 If Britain had not gotten involved, then Germany would have won over France and Europe, and it would have been a much bigger issue to deal with later.
@grubby5tw their talking about ww1 not ww2
This has to be one of the best battle scenes ever filmed.
This and saving private ryan's D-day have got to be the best
Absolutely
Kierin Keith id agree with saving private Ryan but this is horrible, never have I seen someone blow up to smithereens from a grenade. Guy two feet from a big artillery explosion not a scratch on the guy. Guy 10 feet from a mortar and falls dead. Not very persistent. I suppose for 1930 that's gold but way overhyping this thing.
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go lock this is amazing too
This is really impressive, especially for 1930
Agree 100%!!!
The fact that this was accomplished on a movie set in 1929-1930 is amazing!
brutality of WW1 just a little over a decade prior and peak of Great Depression. Amazing yet difficult times
This must be one of the most intense battle scenes ever created. The tracking shot of the machine gun mowing the soldiers down always gets me.
WW1 was just 12 years before this film. Let that sink in.
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The greatest (if that's the right word) battle scene in any film. Still unbelievable after all these years.
Everyone should watch this film to see how poinless and cruel war actually is.
Most of us know this,but bad guys still exist
@@anthonycaruso8443technically "bad" guys didnt exist (beacuse a lot of reason)
Actually. Some wars are for defense of others. Like the USA and Canada defending South Korea in 1950 against an invading North Korea!
A battle scene I think could compete is in the movie of Waterloo. Both of these movies however are amazing, using only real actors and both employing realism. We will never see movies like this or Waterloo ever again.
For me, the most remarkable passage in that book was when a unit was being relieved from the front-line, and it was said that they weren't relieved so much that they weren't going to die, as much as being relieved from the burden of having to kill.
The overwhelming noise. Can't imagine seeing this in theaters. insane level of detail.
It’s amazing how the sound of screams is fading in and out because the shells are covering it
"Forward he cried from the rear
And the front rank died
And the general sat
And the lines on the map
Moved from side to side..."
cosmo K us and them
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Zip Zenac Mostly in the beginning of the war though, when countries didn’t understand what this war was gonna be like. And the comment is a song lyric.
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All Quiet on the Western Front opened to wide acclaim in the United States. Considered a realistic and harrowing account of warfare in World War I, it made the American Film Institute's first 100 Years...100 Movies list in 1998. A decade later, after the same organization polled over 1,500 workers in the creative community, All Quiet on the Western Front was ranked the seventh-best American epic film.
In 1990, the film was selected and preserved by the United States Library of Congress' National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The film was the first to win the Academy Awards for both Outstanding Production and Best Director.
Its sequel, The Road Back (1937), portrays members of the 2nd Company returning home after the war.
The movie plot is:
Professor Kantorek gives an impassioned speech about the glory of serving in the Army and "saving the Fatherland". On the brink of becoming men, the boys in his class, led by Paul Baumer, are moved to join the army as the new 2nd Company. Their romantic delusions are quickly broken during their brief but rigorous training under the abusive Corporal Himmelstoss, who bluntly informs them, "You're going to be soldiers-and that's all."
The new soldiers arrive by train at the combat zone, which is mayhem, with soldiers everywhere, incoming shells, horse-drawn wagons racing about, and prolonged rain. One in the group is killed before the new recruits can reach their post, to the alarm of one of the new soldiers (Behn). The new soldiers are assigned to a unit composed of older soldiers, who are not exactly accommodating. The young soldiers find that there is no food available at the moment. They have not eaten since breakfast, but the men they have joined have not had food for two days. One of them, "Kat" Katczinsky, had gone to locate something to eat and he returns with a slaughtered hog he has stolen from a field kitchen. The young soldiers "pay" for their dinner with soaps and cigarettes.
The new recruits' first trip to the trenches with the veterans, to re-string barbed wire, is a harrowing experience, especially when Behn is blinded by shrapnel and hysterically runs into machine-gun fire. After spending several days in a bunker under bombardment, they at last move into the trenches and successfully repulse an enemy attack; they then counterattack and take an enemy trench with heavy casualties, but have to abandon it. They are sent back to the field kitchens to get their rations; each man receives double helpings, simply because of the number of dead.
The men start out eating greedily, but then settle into a satiated torpor. They hear that they are to return to the front the next day and begin a semi-serious discussion about the causes of the war and of wars in general. They speculate about whether geographical entities offend each other and whether these disagreements involve them. Tjaden speaks familiarly about himself and the Kaiser; Kat jokes that instead of having a war, they should have the leaders of Europe be stripped to their underwear and "fight it out with clubs".
One day, Corporal Himmelstoss arrives to the front and is immediately spurned because of his bad reputation; he is forced to go over the top with the 2nd Company and is promptly killed. In an attack on a cemetery, Paul stabs a French soldier, but finds himself trapped in a hole with the dying man for an entire night. Throughout the night, he desperately tries to help him, bringing him water, but fails miserably to stop him from dying. He cries bitterly and begs the dead body to speak so he can be forgiven. Later, he returns to the German lines and is comforted by Kat.
Going back to the front line, Paul is severely wounded and taken to a Catholic hospital, along with his good friend Albert Kropp. Kropp's leg is amputated, but he does not find out until some time afterwards. Around this time, Paul is taken to the bandaging ward, from which, according to its reputation, nobody has ever returned alive; but he later returns to the normal rooms triumphantly, only to find Kropp in depression.
Paul is given a furlough and visits his family at home. He is shocked by how uninformed everyone is about the actual situation of the war; everyone is convinced that a final "push for Paris" is soon to occur. When Paul visits the schoolroom where he was originally recruited, he finds Professor Kantorek prattling the same patriotic fervor to a class of even younger students. Professor Kantorek asks of Paul to detail his experience, to which the latter reveals that war was not at all like he had envisioned and mentions the deaths of his partners; this revelation upsets the professor, as well as the young students who promptly call Paul a "coward". Disillusioned and angry, Paul returns to the front and comes upon another 2nd company that is filled with new young recruits who are now disillusioned; he is then happily greeted by Tjaden. He goes to find Kat, and they discuss the inability of the people to comprehend the futility of the war. Kat's shin is broken when a bomb dropped by an aircraft falls nearby, so Paul carries him back to a field hospital - only to find that Kat has been killed by a second explosion. Crushed by the loss of his mentor, Paul leaves.
In the final scene, Paul is back on the front lines. He sees a butterfly just beyond his trench. Paul smiles and reaches out towards the butterfly, but becoming too exposed, he is shot and killed by an enemy sniper. The final shot shows the 2nd Company arriving at the front for the first time, fading out to the image of a cemetery.
In the film, Paul is shot while reaching for a butterfly. This scene is different from the book, and was inspired by an earlier scene showing a butterfly collection in Paul's home. The scene was shot during the editing phase, so the actors were no longer available and Milestone had to use his own hand as Paul's.
A complete cut of the film lasting 152 minutes, silent with synchronised sound, was first shown in Los Angeles on April 21, 1930 and premiered in New York on April 25, 1930. A sound version was released in NYC on April 29, 1930. A 147-minute version was submitted to the British censors, which was cut to 145 minutes, before the film premiered in London June 14, 1930. The film went on general release in the US on August 24, 1930.
In 1939, it was re-released as a proper sound version, which was cut down to ten reels.
Later re-releases were substantially cut and the film's ending scored with new music against the wishes of director Lewis Milestone. Before he died in 1980, Milestone requested that Universal fully restore the film with the removal of the end music cue. Two decades later, Milestone's wishes were finally granted when the United States Library of Congress undertook an exhaustive restoration of the film, which is vastly superior in sound and picture quality to most other extant prints, but because all complete prints of the film were lost and no longer exist, the final "complete" version now available is only 133 minutes long.
The "International Sound Version", restored by the Library of Congress, premiered on Turner Classic Movies on September 28, 2011. This is an international version with intertitles and synchronized music and effects track. A new restoration of the sound version was also done in 2011. Both have now been released on Blu-ray format.
No, it is actually a quite shitty book. No match for jüngers steel thunder.
Thanks for the info, definitely going to check it out
Interesting read and a shame some if it is simply lost to time
I hope that was a copy-paste and you didn't do this for a RUclips comment.
You left out one of the best lines. When they are talking about how they should have their leaders fight it out with clubs in a roped off area one of them says:
_"And sell tickets."_
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One of the greatest anti-war films ever produced. Period.
Not anti-war, just an accurate depiction. The idea of being either anti-war or pro-war is rather silly.
@John Lange Remarque had a...remarkable way of subtly portraying that. The way his novel starts you're already depressed at how commonplace it is for 70 men to just die. And how the commander here says they can't hold the trench and have to retreat: literally all of it was for nothing - brilliant way to portray that, hat's off to Remarque
@@noneofyourbusiness9489 no its very much an anti war movie, the book is also very anti war
@@melonlord7443 You are free to your own conclusions.
There's no such thing as an 'anti-war movie"
Knowing that actual veterans acted in this film makes it even more realistic and modern-like. It also surprised me a lot.
I've never seen the 1930 movie. For a war-movie shot in the thirties this is extremely realistic - probably much more realistic and brutal than many Hollywood "war-productions" shot from the 50's, till the late 70's /80's. Extremely well done scene. I'm speculating but... I guess they asked someone who had first hand trench experience and went over the top at least once or more, to advise the director in doing this one scene.
The author, Erich Maria Remarque, was a German Western Front veteran. He also wrote a fine WWII anti-war novel called, IIRC, "Time Enough for Love." He had to leave Germany to escape Hitler's wrath. Quite an interesting man.
2serveand2protect old movies are known for their realism because of the era which makes movies better
Yeah - you I guess You are right! It won't be ME to question that, especially after the "example" above I've just seen, HOWEVER!...ahh! - I BEG YOUR PARDON! I REALLY cannot talk now! We'll continue after I had some good "couple of hours" - SLEEP - ok? :) ) Excuse me, please! :) (I've just arrived at home after 5 days abroad - I am truly very, VERY tired!). Gonna hit the "bunk" for a few hours! ;)
All Quiet On The Western Front was also one of the books burned by the Nazis.
Only for the 30s/50s/70s/80s ? I never seen a more realistic war scene even till this days
Pretty damn graphic for a 1930's film
I think that's one of the most impressive points of a film from the 30's. The remake of it doesn't compare at all in terms of brutality and the depiction of the war compared to the 1930 version
Conall O'Berry it’s not graphics it’s resolution. Film isn’t a video game.
@@Traelönsju graphic meant as brutal dumb dumb
Let's Play Video Games;) LPVG sorry English isn’t my first language.
It's common for people to think that all old movies are tame by today's standards, but that's only because of the MPPC (aka the Hays code), which wasn't widely enforced until 1934. This movie is pre-code, and is pretty representative of the kind of stuff that was made during that short period.
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More like 100 yards of ground
This wans for land it was for territories in Africa
This film should be seen by everyone, at least once in their lives.
Agreed... Once seen, never forgotten... Horrific scenes of the French soldiers getting mown down by the machine gun fire... Incredible, considering how long ago it was made...
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Stil one of the greatest cuts in movie history, must have shocked the audiences to no end.
Indeed!
Made about twelve years after the Armistice, that really catches the rawness. As for the cinematography and the choreography of such a huge scene - no CGI or anything - stunning. But then, in those days direcors had to direct, and not leave the patching up of a movie to the computer boffs.
Its sad,a whole generation was lost..........
This was probably the most accurate war movie I’ve ever seen
Can you tell me his name please
Cabdi Raxmaan Coowl What? Who’s name do you need to know?
@@tvherm no i want this flim wht name has
@@cabdiraxmaancoowl7484The Name of this Film called "All Quiet on the western front".
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It looks like uncut war footage. I can’t believe one of the most brutal war scenes I’ve ever seen is from the the 30s.
I first watched this in English class when we were studying WWI poetry as the teacher wanted to convey the sheer horror and futility of WWI. Watching it again as a 47 year old it is an incredibly intricate and moving reconstruction of events that had occurred little more than a decade ago.
I frankly appreciate this depiction a lot. When the shots finally focus on the soldiers faces once they return to their trench line and can finally have a moment of rest; they aren’t crying, screaming and weeping in tears hysterically like most modern films show. It displays them utterly debilitated and drained, breathless and staring off into empty space; still processing what has just happened in front of their eyes.
Because most of the time, in a moment of immense high stress and adrenaline your brain pretty much clocks out as a survival mechanism. It’s when it’s all over and they finally have to process those emotions and trauma, is when they start truly being unable to function.
Not to say it isn’t 100% of the time; but I think it says a lot seeing as a vast majority of the people involved in the production of this film we’re veterans of the war they were portraying. And are most likely imparting their own experiences and memories through film, even if it’s as subtle as a singular extra acting out through experience how a man falls when he’s cut down by machine gun fire, or using entrenching shovels and tools as weapons. All these tidbits that create authenticity. That’s what makes this film truly unique and ultimately pretty important as a historical piece.
excellent way to not glorify either side: the French assault and the numerous casualties in the beginning is followed by a German counter-attack who also get mowed down by machineguns etc. Showing no one wins in war. And the ending here is perfect: you go through all that just to return to your original position showing it was all for nothing. Remarque was a genius
This was made over years ago and this scene still absolutely crushes it. Easily one of the most savage battle scenes in film history. How many other war movies made in the intervening years does a better job than this? I can't think of very many.
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT.
Such a great movie.
One of the few times when the movie is as good as the book.
Saw it when I was about 15. Was transfixed at the quality and realism of the movie. Saw it on TV in the 80's, back when they showed good stuff.
This scene was filmed on the Irvine ranch at Laguna Beach, Ca.. Today vast housing developments have been built over the location.
4:21 I don't know why but I find this part amazing
The scene had great cinematography.
Distinctive, Atmospheric and Grandiose setting; this describe it.
The best war anti war film ever made.
Shame no one listened....
Alan McBride --- Have you seen the Dalton Trumbo movie called Johnny Got His Gun And Went To War? To me it is the most influential anti-war movie of all time.
I’ve read All quiet on the Western Front and seen both the 1932 and 1972 movies. I don’t think that was what EMR was going for. It wasn’t his intention to say not to wage war, but to show the carnage and chaos it brings with it. And to whom that damage is brought upon. Remark didn’t write this to say “hey you shouldn’t fight wars” but more to say “hey this is what happens to the common man when the dukes and Kings declare war on eachother.” I think this is most evident by the scene where the main character is stuck in a shell hole with a wounded French soldier. War is necessary to stand up for what you value, but it should be used as a last resort.
I didn't get that impression at all. It's quite obvious that Remarque felt war was utterly futile and destructive. Even survivors are permanently altered for the worse. The scene where Paul is stuck in a shell hole with an enemy soldier only shows the common tragedy of the participants, friend and foe.
Brian Damage I think that was more to the common understanding that war with no purpose is futile. I doubt very seriously that Remarque would have written this story the same way had this taken place in WWII. WWI had no moral enemies, no definitive struggle between ideologies. It was the death of the tradition aristocratic wars that europe had been fighting for centuries, and from the death of the aristoracy came the birth of facism and communism that would lead to the second war.
Incredible cinematography, the grittiness is amazing as is the devotion by the extras to try and make it look like a fight! I love the swarm of men running, it's real unlike CGI.
Just a mere 12 years earlier many of the extras were active servicemen in the actual war. And 16 years before the movie cavalry were trotting around on the western front in august 1914. And 10-15 years after this WW2 erupted with more advanced tech, and eventually the nuclear bomb.
One of the most intense scenes in cinema history.
My old mate and neighbor Jock Watt was in a Scottish Black Battalion in WW1, Born 1895 died 1983.
When I was aged 16 in 1973, he told me a story of how he charged the german trenches several times.
They mowed down hundreds of Jocks mates and Jock made it to the German trench unscathed, the german machine gunner through up his hands and said to Jock. * Mien friend, mien friend*.
Jock said. Och mon, Ye no friend o mine laddie and he ran his bayonet into his throat and pulled the trigger to get it back out.
Terrific use of early sound-effects dubbing. Director Lewis Milestone wanted mobility in his shots, so he shot the battle scene silent with lightweight cameras. In post-production the sound editors worked like crazy to get the sound matched; it's crude, but effective. And the tracking shots when the soldiers get mowed down by machine guns still pack a punch.
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imagine running across the field and then a massive cloud of dust and shrapnel sweeps across the land, obscuring everything infront of you with deafening roars
Incredible that three movie adaptations in spanning almost a century and this one, in 1930, is still the best depiction of the violence, chaos, and deafening noise of the Great War.
They had better special effects in the 1930’s than we do today with cgi.
Strictly speaking there are no special effects in this movie but solely practical effects.
All was done for real.
There are no modern optical effects, which would have been added in postproduction, that is what we have foremost in mind, when we think of special effects today.
Just look at that bombarde
at 5:10 to 5:20 !
It's crazy indeed !
These are real explosions,
that's the real thing !
Tons of dynamite were used for these battlescences, which had to be very carefully choreographed to spare the lives of the stuntmen, who had to run thru these real mine fields
They had to carefully watch their steps to avoid to get blown up for real !
Nowadays with CGI these risks for the health of extras are completely reduced of course.
Only nine years after the release of this anti-war movie, the Second World War broke out.
Remarque clearly points out that the story is unbiased towards the idea of war. The accuracy in which it is portrayed makes people think it was intended to be antiwar. War is terrible and this is just an accurate representation of it
Man you're good at math!
MrEjidorie I'd say World War 2 truly began when Japan invaded China in 1937.
MrEjidorie
Yeah.
They didn't see the movie.
WWII had already broken out. The period of “peace” from 1919-1939 was nothing more than a international ceasefire. An American senator once said, “The Treaty Of Versailles is merely an armistice, a period of rest while the combatants get their wind.”
What can you say about this movie other than a brilliant portrayal of the pointless savagery of WW1?
5:12 now THAT'S what is called barrage fire.
and a wall of fire of artillery perfectly timed to stop the charge and force the retreat.
Survivors of These Battles told us that artillery never fired so precisely in ww1.
Quiet Riot
That is wrong. The german and later the british could as they marked the targets from aircrafts or directed the fire from observers in balloons.
Quiet Riot The right barrel elevation for barrage fire was just as meticulously prepared as the machine gun positions as soon as a new trench system was established. Note that it is the area between the first and the second line which is shelled.
That moment is fucking brutal
It's easy to forget this movie its almost 90 years old! Amazing
It's OVER 90 years old now !
93 years to be exactly !
Astonishing !
incredible camera work, even by today's standards.
Even more amazing that this giant setup is that it's clearly being shot on a hand-cranked camera. Someone was having to try turn the handle at the correct speed while running around on this giant set full of practical effects
I had the opportunity to watch this movie as a kid and it was probably the reason why I got into history.
I have nothing but respect for our ancestors, they were raised to be men, with duties, responsabilities and no sense of entitlement.
If this was taught in schools, all these modern "woke" generations would probably learn something about male privilege.
Greatings from Peru.
Isn’t it a great thing , that the masses will never be mobilised into a senseless massacre like this again because of how connected we now are? Nothing but respect for the older generation, but be thankful for who we are now because of these lessons.
They say that the three words one could hear crying out across no-man's land were:-Mother,Mutter and Mama.
Heartbreaking.
Every 40-50 years this movie gets remastered
This is just crazy; brilliant film-making, editing, cinematography, sound; so far ahead of its time. Can't look away.
Set the speed to .75 if you want a more realistic "modern-camera" slower version. Old cameras with their low frame rates make everything seem slightly sped-up. At normal speed you almost miss details like the guy at 2:32.
Geez, that makes the wait for the attack even more agonizing....
And the machine guns even more vicious. They were indeed the "devil's paintbrush".
The camera is actullay normal speed in other scenes, they used to speed up battle scenes in movies back then so they could film soldiers jogging and turn it into runnig etc. Making it more intense was the intention. Also, alot of the shots are actually normal speed.
True, a lot of them are especially during the charge. Mainly when it gets to the trench fighting is when everything feels sped up to me. I didn't know about the scenes being sped-up on purpose though. A lot of older films, especially silent films, have a sped-up choppy look and I always figured that was due to framerate of the cameras.
Scenes in movies, like battle scenes or comedic chase scenes, were shot at a lower frame rate, like 12 fps, while other scenes were shot at 24 fps. This, of coarse, speeds it up. There is a great article on it www.straightdope.com/columns/read/973/why-is-the-action-in-old-silent-movies-so-fast
Absolute carnage and mayhem! What insanity!!
About as accurate to the futility of WW1 as you can get
thebruce1313 great to hear from someone who was there, as im sure you were! (Sarcasm)
Garrison Moe Is it not a fact that storming through yards upon yards of mud and bullets just to take a hole in the ground futile?
All war is like this.
Charles Goodwin there’s different types of warfare you know
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There's a right way and a wrong way to conduct warfare. Yes.
I don't think the 2022 remake comes anywhere close to this one. There's some kind of actuality in the portrayal of war here, that no war-movie since managed to replicate. It's also the first and only movie afaik that makes the viewer actually scared of artillery shells. In any other movie you can't but question what's the point of artillery if it even fails to kill a soldier 1 meter within impact.
Also, other than the new remake, this one understood the source material in its claim that the full scale of destruction of the war only became apparent when these men tried to return home.
i mean about that last part ofcourse it understood the "source material" better since the movie was done just a little over a decade after the war ended and also almost all of the extras were real world war 1 veterans
@@marcowulliampopirers2216 agreed
For 1930, this war movie was FAR ahead of its time. The battle sequences are fantastic...relentless...and the Horror and exhaustion are clearly captured on everyone's faces.
They did a good job keeping alot of shells going off to portray how loud it gets in ww1. Good job from the 30s
What made the 1930 version a little scarier was the fact that, at that period of time, the world was only 12 years removed from World War 1 and it was still the largest conflict in human history. The original depiction on film had to have felt more intimate and personal to those had actually had to experience those horrors.
The men you see here are mostly veterans basically just showing what they had done and how it was. There is no acting, no interpretation...this is how it was
Wow this way better than I thought it would be. This modern day level cinema.
The 1930s version was easily 30 ahead of it's time ... and 70% of extra soldiers we see in this battle scene are REAL German WW1 veterans, shipped in for the movie.
You’ll notice that movies from the early 30s allowed a lot more to be shown than most movies even in the 50s. It’s because the Hayes code was enacted in 1934 and ended in the late 60s. It was censorship that limited the hell out of film.
It's amazing how this movie wasn't that far from ww1, and that ww2 would start a couple years later
For 1930 this was high quality cinema. Amazing. Can't help think of my Grandfathers who went through that hell but both came home unmaimed. They never talked about it.
Better than the new one in my opinion. You're Grandfathers must have been through the unimaginable.
after 80 years this part is still amazing
Actually it's 90 years.
This truly is a masterpiece
Such a great movie. I remember as a kid in the late 90s staying up late watching this on AMC
'We can't hold this positon men, back to your own lines.' So the whole battle was just a waste of time, resources and human life? Yup, that's war for you.
They successfully defended and retook their lines
All Quiet on the Western Front: earrape before it was trendy.
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Terrible!
Such a waste of the best men from all countries involved!
As the dead started to fall I thought, was that a great science or medical mind destroyed ?
ltyr2001 1 to the troops! On all sides..
Utter tragedy for all sides.
The German machine guns/mustard gas/and their powerful howitzers killed many a young man when the whistle blew to charge
That’s the First World War for ya. Incompetence and stubbornness led to this. And chances are it will happen again
The 2022 version made me hate war, frightened me to be honest! I wished no one on this planet should go through it!
But then the 1930 version made me cry, made me sympathize with the soldiers! What a movie!!!
Amazing, raw cinematic depiction of the first modern war.
2020 watching this amazing action
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Extraordinary. The camera work is incredible, as is the editing. When watching films from this era, it reminds the watcher of how good many of these works were, and how little we have progressed in many ways in cinema since then. The acting is sometimes melodramatic, not suprising as this was made in the first year of sound film making, but it is a devastating anti war polemic. The combat is brutally realistic. So real the film was banned in the UK for years. It also is a testament of how little societies have learned since this film was made. Fifteen years before World War 2, it stated the madness of war in elegant terms, but no one listened. 80 million lives later, the second world war ended. But, war never ceased. The Chinese civil war, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Syria, and on and on.
I meant nine years later WW2 erupted. I just had my gall bladder out and am still a bit befuddled.
This is Pre-Hays code, at that time in Hollywood, pretty much anything was allowed on screen. But I bet nobody understood what they were about to watch when they sat down for this movie. It absolutely blows my mind this was made in 1930, it seems decades ahead of it’s time. None of these poor WWI vets playing extras knew what was in store for WWII.
This movie does an incredible job showing the war for what it was. It wasn’t about glory, honor, king or country, it was just wholesale slaughter of people. The hands on the barbed wire was one of the best sequenced shots I’ve ever seen in a film. Sudden, brutal and horrific. It leaves a lasting impact on the viewer.
The fact that this cane out 5 years before the beginning of World War 2 is haunting.
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For this time (1930) the murderess mood on a Battlefield was perfectly catched by camera.
My Grand-grandfather was heavyly wounded in such a assault in russia 1915. He became a few mg rounds in the legs but he survives. After the hospital he do his duty in france and fights in verdun too. I have 2 pictures from him from the ww1. One from the beginning and one from 1917. He dies 1978.
This is the most realistic war movie I've ever seen...it sends me serious deja Vu sensations like I was there in a previous life.
4:37 that is just an excellent shot right there it's beautiful!
Arthur Edeson was cinematographer. He was a first-rate craftsman and perfectly captures the stark, desolate look of no-man's land. Later he photographed James Whale's 'Frankenstein' and 'The Invisible Man.'
OMG at speed .75, it is totally different and more realistic. A crazy, crazy time in human history.
5:12 very real barrage shooting scene 👍
One of the greatest pieces of cinema ever made, if not the best.
christ the hands on the barb wire. that got to me. legit spooked me
It supposedly was something one of the veterans really encountered
Another thing to note is that this is a pre-Code movie, so they were allowed to show more brutality
Rumor has it, they used real veterans for this scene, and they were so into this they opeted to sleep in the trenches. Not only that, the director had to convince them that this wasn't real because in the charge scene, some vets acctually thought they were going over the top and charged to kill. Very deep