Cast: Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Ian Holm, Patricia Neal. "Formatted from its original version to fit your screen." Special features: digitally mastered, 2.0 Dolby stereo surround, scene index, interactive menus. Based on the novel: All quiet on the western front by Erich Maria Remarque. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1979 by Marble Arch Productions.
Summary:
In this realistic depiction of the lives of ordinary German soldiers Paul Baumer and his school chums are encouraged to enlist by their bombastic, slogan-chanting teacher, but they quickly learn that actual war is more gore than glory, as they crawl through mud, huddle in trenches, suffer the ordeal of frenzied hand-to-hand combat and dodge screaming shells during World War I.
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