All Quiet on the Western Front poster
Director Delbert Mann
Screenplay Paul Monash

All Quiet on the Western Front

Tagline: They left for war as boys, never to return as men.

Release Date: 1979-11-14

Duration: 150 minutes

Synopsis

At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to bear, and as his friends die or become gravely wounded, Paul questions the sanity of fighting over a few hundreds yards of war-torn countryside.

Casting

  • Richard Thomas
    Paul Bäumer
  • Donald Pleasence
    Kantorek
  • Ian Holm
    Himmelstoss
  • Ernest Borgnine
    Stanislaus Katczinsky
  • Patricia Neal
    Paul's Mother
  • David Bradley
    Albert Kropp
  • Ewan Stewart
    Detering
  • Mark Drewry
    Tjaden
  • Denys Graham
    Kaiser Wilhelm II
  • Kevin Stoney
    Hollerstein (uncredited)