All Quiet on the Western Front (1979 film)

All Quiet on the Western Front is a television film produced by ITC Entertainment, released on November 14, 1979, starring actors Richard Thomas of The Waltons fame as Paul Baumer, and Ernest Borgnine as Katczinsky. It is based on the book of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.

The film follows Paul Baumer, who during World War I enlists in the Imperial German Army with many of his high school friends, after being indoctrinated by their teacher Donald Pleasence as to the glory and superiority of German culture. After surviving training camp under the brutal Corporal Himmelstoss Ian Holm, the young men board a troop train bound for the front lines. Ominously, at the same moment, they notice another train arriving in town loaded with wounded returning soldiers, who are carried off on stretchers. Once at the front lines, they are placed under the supervision of Stanislaus Kat Katzinsky, Ernest Borgnine. Kat teaches them how to best take cover, how to find extra food, and other survival skills.At the beginning, the French and German armies are shown attacking each other repeatedly over a few hundred yards of torn, corpsestrewn land. Pauls friend Franz Kemmerich is wounded, and soon dies in a crowded army hospital attended by nuns. Paul returns to the trenches with his troop, distraught by his friends death. ........

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