Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
based on novel or book
world war i
infantry
tank
battle
brutality
period drama
german soldier
shocking
1910s
german army
aircraft
trench warfare
intense
depressing
war epic