WW1 was the first war of modern warfare. Modern artillery, smoke bombs, tanks, and airplanes were used on a large scale for the first time. In this scene from All Quiet on the Western Front, we see the French artillery using a tactic called "creeping barrage". Here, artillery starts bombarding and slowly creeps through enemy lines, hence the name creeping barrage. In these later days of WWI, the Germans had neither the firepower nor the manpower to retaliate and that's one of the reasons for their late but hopeless counter-offensive to change the tide of the war. We all know how it went...
All Quiet on Western Front (Im Westen Nichts Neues, 2022) is just published on Netflix and it is already on our Top 10 WW1 movies of all time! Start with this opening scene from All Quiet on the Western Front and then go on and watch the entire movie. It is well worth your time.
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ABOUT THE MOVIE
The story follows teenagers Paul Bäumer and his friends Albert and Müller, who voluntarily enlist in the German army, riding a wave of patriotic fervor that quickly dissipates once they face the brutal realities of life on the front. Paul's preconceptions about the enemy and the rights and wrongs of the conflict soon crumble. However, amid the countdown to the armistice, Paul must carry on fighting until the end, with no purpose other than to satisfy the top brass' desire to end the war on a German offensive.
In spring 1917, three years into the First World War, 17-year-old Paul Bäumer enlists in the Imperial German Army alongside his school friends, Albert Kropp, Franz Müller and Ludwig Behm. They listen to a patriotic speech by a school official and unknowingly receive uniforms from soldiers killed in a previous battle. After they are deployed in Northern France near La Malmaison, they are befriended by Stanislaus "Kat" Katczinsky, an older soldier. Their romantic view of the war is shattered by the realities of trench warfare on the Western Front and Ludwig is killed by artillery the first night.
