All Quiet on the Western Front
In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the ‘glorious war’. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young ‘unknown soldier’ experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.
Dark & BroodingHeartbreakingQuietly DevastatingThought-ProvokingShattered youthful idealismDehumanizing trench horrorGenerational alienationIllusion of glory
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