A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.
Cast
Fritz Kampers
Der Bayer
Gustav Diessl
Karl
Hans-Joachim Moebis
Der Student
Claus Clausen
Der Leutnant
Gustav Püttjer
Der Hamburger
Vladimir Sokoloff
Proviantmeister
Jackie Monnier
Unknown
Hanna Hoessrich
Unknown
Else Heller
Unknown
Carl Ballhaus
Schlachtergeselle
Aribert Mog
Unknown
André Saint-Germain
Unknown
Ilse Trautschold
Unknown
Emil Wabschke
Unknown
Crew
G.W. Pabst
Director
Peter Martin Lampel
Writer
Ernst Johannsen
Author
Ladislaus Vajda
Screenplay
Marc Sorkin
Editor
W.L. Bagier
Editor
Jean Oser
Editor
Charles Métain
Director of Photography
Fritz Arno Wagner
Director of Photography
Walter Zeiske
Production Supervisor
Seymour Nebenzal
Producer
Alexander Laszlo
Original Music Composer
Leo Meyer
Production Manager
Ernö Metzner
Art Direction
