---
title: 'Westfront 1918 (1930)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Georg Wilhelm Pabst'
released: '1930-05-23'
runtime_minutes: 97
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Weimar Republic'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/westfront-1918-1930'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021542/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Westfront 1918 (1930)

1930 · 97 min · Drama · Weimar Republic


## Synopsis

Westfront 1918 is a German war film, set mostly in the trenches of the Western Front during World War I. It was directed in 1930 by G. W. Pabst, from a screenplay by Ladislaus Vajda based on the novel Four Infantrymen on the Western Front 1918 by Ernst Johannsen. The film shows the effect of the war on a group of infantrymen portrayed by an ensemble cast led by screen veterans Fritz Kampers and Gustav Diessl.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Georg Wilhelm Pabst](https://cinepixo.com/people/georg-wilhelm-pabst)
- **Screenplay:** [Peter Martin Lampel](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-martin-lampel), [Ladislaus Vajda](https://cinepixo.com/people/ladislaus-vajda)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Alexander László](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexander-laszlo)
- **Producer:** [Seymour Nebenzal](https://cinepixo.com/people/seymour-nebenzal)
- **Director of Photography:** [Fritz Arno Wagner](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-arno-wagner)
- **Editor:** [Jean Oser](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-oser), [Wolfgang Loe Bagier](https://cinepixo.com/people/wolfgang-loe-bagier), [Mark Sorkin](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-sorkin)

## Cast

- [Hans Joachim Moebis](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-joachim-moebis)
- [Carl Balhaus](https://cinepixo.com/people/carl-balhaus)
- [Claus Clausen](https://cinepixo.com/people/claus-clausen)
- [Gustav Püttjer](https://cinepixo.com/people/gustav-puttjer)
- [Fritz Kampers](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-kampers)
- [Vladimir Sokoloff](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-sokoloff)
- [Jackie Monnier](https://cinepixo.com/people/jackie-monnier)
- [Gustav Diessl](https://cinepixo.com/people/gustav-diessl)

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