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The film was [[UsefulNotes/RiseOfTheTalkies one of the first European talkies]] and featured an ensemble cast led by screen veterans Fritz Kampers and Gustav Diessl. Compare the contemporary American-made ''Film/{{All Quiet on the Western Front|1930}}''.
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The film was [[UsefulNotes/RiseOfTheTalkies [[MediaNotes/RiseOfTheTalkies one of the first European talkies]] and featured an ensemble cast led by screen veterans Fritz Kampers and Gustav Diessl. Compare the contemporary American-made ''Film/{{All Quiet on the Western Front|1930}}''.
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The film was [[UsefulNotes/RiseOfTheTalkies one of the first European talkies]] and featured an ensemble cast led by screen veterans Fritz Kampers and Gustav Diessl. See also the [[Film/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront2022 2022 film version]], the first to be in German language.
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The film was [[UsefulNotes/RiseOfTheTalkies one of the first European talkies]] and featured an ensemble cast led by screen veterans Fritz Kampers and Gustav Diessl. See also Compare the [[Film/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront2022 2022 film version]], contemporary American-made ''Film/{{All Quiet on the first to be in German language.Western Front|1930}}''.
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The film was [[UsefulNotes/RiseOfTheTalkies one of the first European talkies]] and featured an ensemble cast led by screen veterans Fritz Kampers and Gustav Diessl. See also the [[Film/{{All Quiet on the Western Front2022 [[Film/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront2022 2022 film version]], the first to be in German language.
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The film was [[UsefulNotes/RiseOfTheTalkies one of the first European talkies]] and featured an ensemble cast led by screen veterans Fritz Kampers and Gustav Diessl. See also the [[Film/{{All Quiet on the Western Front2022 2022 film version]], the first to be in German language.
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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Karl is on a leave and goes back home, only to find out [[YourCheatingHeart his wife cheated on him]] while he was on the front.
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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Karl is on a leave and goes back home, only to find out [[YourCheatingHeart his wife cheated on him]] him while he was on the front.
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Set mostly in the trenches of the Western Front towards the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, the film deals with the impact of the war on a group of four German infantrymen.
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Set mostly in the trenches of the Western Front towards the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, the film deals with the impact of the war on a group of four German infantrymen.
infantrymen: a jovial fellow from Bavaria, a student who has fallen in love with a French girl, the company's lieutenant, and Karl, the only one named, who has a wife waiting for him back home.
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* DownerEnding: All four infantrymen are dead by the end of the film.
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* DownerEnding: All Three of the four infantrymen are dead by the end of the film.film, and the lieutenant, the sole survivor, has had a complete mental breakdown.
* TheEnd: The closing card says "ENDE?!". Pabst of course was correct in guessing that World War I was not the end.
* TheEnd: The closing card says "ENDE?!". Pabst of course was correct in guessing that World War I was not the end.
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* OminousFog: The trenches become wreathed in smoke as the French attack proceeds, which makes it all the more frightening when French tanks emerge.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: For whatever reason everyone seems content to call the student "the student".
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: For whatever reason everyone seems content to call the student "the student".
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* SilenceIsGolden: A long segment near the end shows the French attack on the German trenches. There are lots and lots of explosions but very little dialogue.
* TankGoodness: The French deploy tanks as they are breaking through the German lines. To a latter-day viewer they look more like armored tractors, but they are still terrifying to the German soldiers in the trenches.
* TankGoodness: The French deploy tanks as they are breaking through the German lines. To a latter-day viewer they look more like armored tractors, but they are still terrifying to the German soldiers in the trenches.
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* GlamorousWartimeSinger: An attractive, leggy singer is part of a show to entertain the men at the front.
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* MoodWhiplash: The jovial horsing around in the opening scene ends instantly when Allied artillery starts falling.
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* DownerEnding: All fout infantrymen are dead by the end of the film.
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* DownerEnding: All fout four infantrymen are dead by the end of the film.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The picture is noticeably bleaker than the already WarIsHell-heavy ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront'', which was made and released at the same time. Especially with the cheated on husband who goes into a murderous rage, the PTSD Lieutenant losing his mind mid-battle and the final scene at the field hospital.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The picture is noticeably bleaker than the already WarIsHell-heavy ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront'', which was made and released at the same time. Especially with the cheated on husband who goes into a murderous rage, the PTSD Lieutenant losing his mind mid-battle and the final scene at the field hospital.hospital with all the mutilated, PTSD and sanity-losing soldiers.
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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Karl is on a leave and goes back home, only to find out [[YourCheatingHeart his wife cheated on him]] while he was on the front. The only thing he wants to do next is to kill his wife's lover with his rifle.
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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Karl is on a leave and goes back home, only to find out [[YourCheatingHeart his wife cheated on him]] while he was on the front.
* CrazyJealousGuy: The only thinghe Karl wants to do next after finding out his wife had a lover when he was on the front is to kill his wife's the lover with his rifle.
* CrazyJealousGuy: The only thing
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* CrazyJealousGuy: AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Karl is on a leave and goes back home, only to find out [[YourCheatingHeart his wife cheated on him]] while he was on the front. The only thing he wants to do next is to kill his wife's lover with his rifle.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The picture is noticeably bleaker than the already WarIsHell-heavy ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront'', which was made and released at the same time. Especially with the cheated on husband who goes into a murderous rage, the PTSD Lieutenant and the final scene at the field hospital.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The picture is noticeably bleaker than the already WarIsHell-heavy ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront'', which was made and released at the same time. Especially with the cheated on husband who goes into a murderous rage, the PTSD Lieutenant losing his mind mid-battle and the final scene at the field hospital.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The picture is noticeably bleaker than the already WarIsHell-heavy ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront''. ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront'', which was made and released at the same time. Especially with the cheated on husband with who goes into a murderous rage, the PTSD Lieutenant and the final scene at the field hospital.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The picture is noticeably bleaker than the already WarIsHell-heavy ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront''. Especially with the cheated on husband, husband with a murderous rage, the PTSD Lieutenant and the final scene at the field hospital.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: In what is probably the movie's most memorable scene (photo), the Lieutenant (played by Claus Clausen) [[DrivenToMadness has a mental breakdown]] when seeing the battlefield's horror, salutes a pile of corpses and shouts "HURRAH!" Repeatedly and uncontrollably. He is then transported at the field hospital.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: In what is probably the movie's most memorable scene (photo), the Lieutenant (played by Claus Clausen) [[DrivenToMadness has a mental breakdown]] when seeing the battlefield's horror, salutes a pile of corpses and shouts "HURRAH!" Repeatedly repeatedly and uncontrollably. He is then transported at the field hospital.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: In what is probably the movie's most famous scene (photo), the Lieutenant (played by Claus Clausen) [[DrivenToMadness has a mental breakdown]] when seeing the battlefield's horror, salutes a pile of corpses and shouts "HURRAH!" Repeatedly and uncontrollably. He is then transported at the field hospital.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: In what is probably the movie's most famous memorable scene (photo), the Lieutenant (played by Claus Clausen) [[DrivenToMadness has a mental breakdown]] when seeing the battlefield's horror, salutes a pile of corpses and shouts "HURRAH!" Repeatedly and uncontrollably. He is then transported at the field hospital.
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