The film is adapted from the classic novel of the same name written by Erich Maria Remarque, and interprets the cruelty of war from a German perspective.
tells the story of at the end of the First World War , the German government advocated the fanaticism of war, and the protagonist Paul joined the German National Volunteers and was full of fanaticism about war. A group of nasty children were sent to the front to fight the French army after a short training session.
The cruelty of the battlefield was not what they imagined. He witnessed cruel hunger, blood and death. The absurd and ruthless war made Paul from obsessed with war to disheartened.
The German high-level surrendered, and the armistice officially ended at eleven o'clock. Unwilling to lose, the generals in Paul's army continued the war, and Paul was killed minutes before the armistice. The whole film of
has no heroic characters, no grand narrative plot, and some are just a group of teenagers under the age of 20, the most intuitive and profound live experience in the brutal war. War makes people's lives trivial, and naive, ignorant and ignorant young people are destined to become the war victims of politicians.
There is no war on the Western Front, and there is no more war in the world.
