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All Quiet on the Western Front

Summary: A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.

Release Date: August 24, 1930

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Lewis Milestone

Writers: Erich Maria Remarque

, Maxwell Anderson

, George Abbott

Runtime: 2 h 32 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Universal Pictures

Distributor: Screen Gems, MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Pictures, MCA/Universal Home Video, Universal Studios Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Universal Studios

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,200,000

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1910s 20th century afi airplane ambulance american actor playing foreigner amputee anti war artillery barrage baling water barbed wire bare chested male based on novel bathing in a river bayonet bayonet charge bayonet fight begins with text behind enemy lines biplane blinded blindness blockbuster blood bolt action rifle bomb bombardment boot camp boots bridge brother bunker butterfly butterfly collection candle cannon cannon fodder carried over back casualty of war catholic hospital cemetery character says dulce et decorum est pro patria mori character's point of view camera shot characters killed one by one cherry tree church claim in title coffin combat comrades in arms corpse covered in mud crawling in mud crying cult film dead on arrival dead soldier death death of comrade death of friend death of hero death of protagonist death of teenager depression disarming someone drink drinking from a broken bottle dying dying young enemy epic explosion extra ration father fear of death firearm flooded trench flower food food shortage foreign language adaptation forgiveness friend friendship gloves grenade gunfire hallucination hand grenade hand to hand combat harmonica helmet hero high school boy hog carcass home from war honor horse drawn artillery hospital hospital train husband wife relationship killed in action kissing hand knife last stand laundry drying on a clothesline machine gun main character shot man carries a man marching marching soldiers maschinengewehr 08 mentally exhausted mentally impaired military military parade military training military uniform mirror montage mother mud puddle murder national film registry nationalism nco nightmare no music no music during end credits nun on leave orchard pacifist panic panic attack parade paris france patriotism photograph pistol playing dead ptsd ptsd post traumatic stress disorder rain rat reading reference to friedrich schiller reference to goethe remade river screaming shell shock shelling shot to death shovel shrapnel singing singing in a beer hall skinny dipping sniper sniper rifle soldier squad stabbed with a bayonet stabbing standoff starving swimming talking to a dead body teenage boy telescope tent timeframe 1910s timeframe 20th century title spoken by character tough guy tracking shot tragic hero train traumatic event trench warfare truck violence war comrade war hero war veteran war violence warrior weapon western front world war one world war one soldier world war one veteran wounded soldier year 1917 year 1918

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