
“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.
A stark, unflinching look at the brutal realities of WWI. It's a gut-wrenching descent into the mud and madness of the trenches, stripping away any romanticism of war and leaving only despair and disillusionment.









