Westfront 1918
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.
Request Concert
The young, attractive Inge Wagner becomes acquainted with Herbert Koch during the Berlin Olympics, his flight officer insignia having first caught her eye. Sparks fly immediately between the two and they soon decide to marry. But Herbert is called off on a secret mission in Spain.
Farewell
Hella lives in a boarding house and has various romantic adventures before settling down with vacuum cleaner salesman Winkler.
Ecstasy
Eva has just gotten married to an older gentleman, but discovers that he is obsessed with order in his life and doesn't have much room for passion. She becomes despondent and leaves him, returning to her father's house. One day while bathing in the lake, she meets a young man and they fall in love. The husband has become grief stricken at the loss of his young bride, and fate brings him together with the young lover that has taken Eva from him.
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Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Director
Fritz Kampers
as
Der Bayer - The Bavarian
Gustav Püttjer
as
Hamburger
Eduard von Borsody
Director
Elise Aulinger
as
Frau Schwarzkopf
Albert Florath
as
Physician
Robert Siodmak
Director
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