According to Sadoul in his Dictionary Of Films: The life and death of four average soldiers attached to the same company on the French front during the last months of World War I. Karl (Diessl), from Berlin, goes home on leave and finds his wife (Hoessrich) in bed with another man. A Bavarian (Kampers) takes life as it comes, while the lieutenant (Clausen) sticks to his duty. Anex-student (Moebis) falls in love with a French girl (Monnier) but loses her when the company moves on. All of them, sooner or later, meet a terrible end. Best sequences: the men buried alive during a bombardment; the first romantic meeting between the young student and Yvette; Berlin in the midst of food rationing with queues at all the shops; the death of the student at the hands of a wounded soldier in no-man's-land; the tank attack; the lieutenant going mad; the wounded and the dying in the ruined church converted into a field hospital. Far better than the contemporary All Quiet On The Western Front, Westfront 1918 has little dialogue but gives tremendous dramatic force to natural sounds (Pabst refused to use music). As John C. Moore describes the final sequences: 'Pabst makes one last desperate effort to convey to us not only the horror of war but its futility and its gross stupidity as well.' Released to tremendous international acclaim, it still must be included among the finest war films ever made.
我真的对战争片越来越没有感觉了。
德国本土出产的一战反思片。剧情和拍摄角度不如同一时期的《西线无战事》来得丰富，但不失为一部反战佳作。影片上映后不久被纳粹禁播，理由和魏巍批判《集结号》一样：丑化本国军队、瓦解本国军心。（在此感谢小易甫的翻译）
According to Sadoul in his Dictionary Of Films: The life and death of four average soldiers attached to the same company on the French front during the last months of World War I. Karl (Diessl) from Berlin goes home on leave and finds his wife (Hoessrich) in bed with another man. A Bavarian (Kampers) takes life as it comes while the lieutenant (Clausen) sticks to his duty...
站错队的电影
1930年的反战片，反映了战争给普通德国士兵及家人带来的伤害，在那个年代的视听效果能做的如此之好已经很不容易了，3年之后，纳粹上台，这部片子理所当然地遭到了批判~
