Plot Summary

A story about an ordinary German high school students who, under the influence of Patriotic propaganda go to war, taking it as a game and don't know what is waiting for them but death.

Did You Know?

The film is based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque.

Playing the role of Paul Baumer and received while working on the film a moral experience, actor Lew Eayrs refused military service during the Second world war for moral and ethical reasons.

For large-scale battle scenes and pyrotechnical effects more than 20 acres of land, a large ranch in California was turned into battlefields, for which there were more than 2000 soldiers.

In Nazi Germany the film was banned.

The Berlin premiere of the film personally tore Goebbels, throwing the audience "bombs-skunk" and live mice.

In 1990, the band was listed on the national register of USA movies.

It was the first sound film that uses a giant mobile crane with a camera, in particular for filming realistic battle scenes, and one of the first sound films, which were widely used movable cameras.

Originally issued in a 140-minute version, the film further dropped to 110 or even 90 minutes. In 1939 he was released with a special anti-Nazi insert.

The film's producer Carl Lemley Jr. was very unhappy that the film will have a tragic end and demanded the Lewis Milestone remake it into a happy ending. This Milestone sarcastically replied that in that case the war in the film will win the French, and the Germans, and then the conflict had been exhausted.

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