Talk:All Quiet on the Western Front (1979 film)

Watched
We watched this movie (or at least, it certainly looks more like it was the '79 version than the '30 version, what with the color and all.) in my history class a few years back - and while I don't remember all that much from the movie, I certainly don't remember a "French Superweapon that can turn Men into Monsters" as mentioned in the Summary section here. I also quite clearly remember Baumer being shot by an unseen enemy while stopping to sketch/look at? a bird on a tree only shortly before the armistice, not being overrun by french monster-men. While I don't want to just edit it in case I am horribly mistaken and thinking of something completely different, I'm pretty sure the plot summary in the article is in error. -Draewn

Incorrect weapon information
I have not seen the film in some ten years or so. However I think that the article's claim that Gew 88s were used in the film is incorrect. Being a gun geek I noticed early on that although a few actual Gew-98s do apear in the film the majority of the rifles in the movie (including oddly enough the primary actors) are actually post-war Turkish mausers. These are often used as "stand ins" for the fairly uncommon Gew-98 in WW1 movies. I do not recall seeing any model 1888 commision rifles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.69.219.207 (talk) 01:28, 7 October 2009 (UTC) You are almost certainly correct. Another example of slackness in the making of this movie. Please amend the article accordingly. Rumiton (talk) 07:45, 25 December 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm not so sure about the rifles...were Turkish Mausers equiped with that bayonet (the curved quillion, aka: handguard)? See the first/early part of the movie. They look like Japanese bayonets to me. There were indeed a lot of Arisaka rifles sent to Britain and other countries in WWI; most used in training, but still...were they perhaps used as 'movie surplus' in this case? Engr105th (talk) 10:04, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
 * (removed nasty personal comment which violated civility. Editor is welcome to repost after rethinking and rephrasing.) Rumiton (talk) 16:16, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Films made in the Communist Bloc
It is certainly wrong to state that this was one of the first films made in the Communist bloc - I can think of two from the 60s offhand, namely, "Kelly's Heroes" and "The Bridge at Remagen" (Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia resp.) The latter had a near-comical real life interruption in the production schedule when Russia invaded, forcing the entire production crew to flee into Germany in a strange recapitulation of reality. There must be many more examples of war films that used these countries for their relatively unspoiled village scenes and matching terrain. Antimatter33 (talk) 20:14, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

(: —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.155.190.77 (talk) 15:57, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Banned in Germany?
I was under the impression that this movie was banned in Germany? Or am I mistaken? Delierajaytoday (talk) 02:50, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The original movie that came out in 1930 was banned in Germany from 1930 until 1945. This 1979 version was never banned. Rumiton (talk) 08:44, 1 June 2012 (UTC)