Movie Settings Database

Westfront 1918

Where:

🇫🇷 France

When:

The 1910s

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.

Released in 1930 — 97 minutes

Genres:

Drama Romance War

Languages:

German French