They left for war as boys, never to return as men.
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.
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Richard Thomas
Paul Bäumer
Ernest Borgnine
Stanislaus Katczinsky
Donald Pleasence
Kantorek
Ian Holm
Himmelstoss
Patricia Neal
Paul's Mother
Paul Mark Elliott
Josef Behm
David Bradley
Albert Kropp
Matthew Evans
Friedrich Muller
George Winter
Franz Kemmerich
Dominic Jephcott
Peter Leer
Mark Drewry
Tjaden
Colin Mayes
Westhus
Ewan Stewart
Detering
Michael Sheard
Peter's Father
Kateřina Lírová
Paul's Sister
