All Quiet on the Western Front DVD 1979 Nyugaton a helyzet változatlan / Directed by Delbert Mann / Starring: Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasance

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MADE IN HUNGARY

AUDIO: English 2.0, Hungarian 2.0

Total Runtime: 124 minutes

English Summary:

All Quiet on the Western Front is a television film produced by ITC Entertainment, released on November 14, 1979, starring Richard Thomas and Ernest Borgnine. It is based on the book of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.

The 1979 film was directed by Delbert Mann. It has its share of tension and death, and in the spirit of the novel, manages to convey a sense of desolation, hardship and waste. Late in the film, the turmoil and wretchedness of the main character, Paul Baumer, is manifested in his extreme disassociation while home on furlough.

Most of the filming took place in Czechoslovakia.

During World War I, 18-year-old Paul Bäumer enlists in the German army with five of his high school friends (Behm, Kropp, Muller, Kemmerich and Leer), after being indoctrinated by Kantorek, their teacher, as to the glory and superiority of German culture. After surviving training camp under the brutal Corporal Himmelstoss, the young men board a troop train bound for the front line. Ominously, at the same moment, they notice another train arriving in town loaded with returning wounded soldiers, who are carried off on stretchers.

Once at the front line, they are placed in a squad, along with soldiers Tjaden, Westhus, Detering and others, under the supervision of Stanislaus "Kat" Katzinsky. Kat teaches them how to best take cover, how to find extra food, and other survival skills.

Hungarian Summary:

Az ifjú Paul Baumer lelkesen vonul be katonának 1914-ben. Végigszenvedi a szadista kiképző altiszt embertelen gyakorlatait, a katonaélet összes gyötrelmét, majd halálos sebet kap, mégpedig aznap, amikor a hivatalos hadijelentés szerint "nyugaton a helyzet változatlan".

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