All Quiet on the Western Front (7/10) Movie CLIP - To Die For Your Country (1930) HD 

Not sure if it has anything to do with todays politics (if you know what I mean). This destroys the whole purpose of being a anti-war message if they don’t show how gullible even the public can be.

Yeah, it was disappointing. Was this in the book?

Yes it was in the book and it was beautiful, cutting, and powerfully written

I read the book in high school back back in 06 I was waiting to see this scene in the new version but it didn't.

​@@griz312 Exactly an example of the dumbing-down of our current society - which is why I don't go to movies anymore-they're empty and undemanding.

Its about either you witnessed the horror or not. And that's a vulnerbality. Peope can convince to accept their version of the horror. Thats how the teacher was able to convince Paul and other to enlist and sign their death sentence. The lesson is that you should trust what you believe, not what others believe. But most important to always anknowledge some parts from both sides. It helps you craft your perspective on things. And that war is hell

CG Toe exactly my friend

very well said.

I am a “baby boomer”! I remember real soldiers, Marines come to my high school in the mid-sixties. Growing up on War movies forged an idea in my mind. My Dad and his brother had fought in World War Two. I got my draft notice after high school and enlisted. I went to Vietnam and I had no idea what the hell was going on! I knew back in the “world “ (America) people disliked me. I saw that in AIT near Washington D.C.. War is hell, death, dreadful scenes every day. This movie had a somewhat but profound meaning on me as a kid . Today, it moves me to tears! As old as it is I think it’s one of the greatest war movies ever made in showing the truth in war. I cry when Lew Aryes is carrying his wounded companion on his back; and the quiet but brilliant last scene as he reaches out to the butterfly only to be shot by the sniper.

As he said it's easy to say it. He knows what it's like.

Exactly. IT robbed him of his youth, his innocence, and finally, his life.

That would ruin their childhood. Maybe when they had reachedtheir puberry. For safety reasons

@@cgt3704 I saw it when I was in 7th grade (I think it was 7th grade, maybe one year later. We had to read the book but we watched the movie anyways). It sure changed the way I see wars

@@saltysalmon4665 see !

they probably wouldnt understand. They wouldn't understand in the first high school scene where one of their mothers sees them in uniform and recoils

I absolutely agree with you, but a child wouldn't be able to understand this movie's message (and also the actual historical events that is based off of) , and besides, it would be pretty traumatizing, I was 18 when I watched this movie for the first time, and even though I absolutely LOVED IT, it was still pretty traumatizing due to how crazily realistic and cold it was, even for the 30s. I wasn't use to war related movies back then, but this is the movie that pretty much started my fascination towards WW1 and the psychological influences that the conflict had. Some of my deceased family members fought both conflicts, so I guess that this movie also feels particularly close to my family's history, and I'm very glad about this

In the book he's drafted himself, which Paul witnesses when he goes to visit his old training camp when he goes home on leave, by now it's clear that Germany's scraping the bottom of the barrel for able-bodied men, and Kantorek's poor performance in training means he probably won't last too long.

the essence of war!

Never forgot this basic truth.

It was such a great movie too.

When we read this 1/3 of the class didn't show up in the afternoon

Just like the soldiers lol

Never die for your country. Die for belief that liberty is worth any cost that must be paid. Die for the idea that you are carrying the legacy of your past ancestor that believed there was something worth dying for.

@@bornfree8073 The old, cold callous lie. Weren't you listening to Paul?

@@russellcampbell9198 I agree...I'm simply can't believe that you could either watch the movie version(s), or read the book (the best version in my eyes) and fail to understand the main message that was being portrayed in this scene.

@@russellcampbell9198 I was. I heard a sad story that is truly astonishing, but that doesnt change my inclinations. It just makes me want to drop out of school and join the military services, so i can help carry the load. Im american, Ill negotiate for peace, pray for peace, and fight fro peace, but i will never surrender for it now, or ever. You have fallen for the new life of selfishness. You believe there is nothing higher than yours in life. It might be the worst lie ever thought of in recent centuries. This lie is why we have such a high sucidide and depression rate. No MORAL man can ever find peace in wallowing in his own self gratification. It cant happen. Its a sad truth. That leaves us with what is left, which is mounts of responisbiliy that no one man can ever complete in a life time, however if every one man helped carry the load, then we would see a world never seen before. This is what i work towards. I will do my utmost to carry that cross because i believe in sometihng greater than myself. I believe in my saviour jesus christ and if i die doing any actions under his name, man i couldnt think of a better way to go.

@@bornfree8073 lol what a load of self righteous bs. US hasn't fought for peace since WW2. You shouldn't join the military to fight for peace, if you want that you should get into medicine, social work or organizing in your community to solve the issues there.

No,, it’s one of the worst monologues. Full of new age woke nonsense. It’s clear that Paul is just a terroirs sympathizer

Never met a person yet who celebrates war. Or the deaths it causes. Not a one.

If you think Remembrance Day is about "a celebration of the deaths" caused by war, you've clearly missed the point of it.

@@sugarkane4830 the thing is, they only bring remembrance to those who are already dead. Not those horribly scarred being mistreated or the stupidity these men were brought in for utterly stupid reasons. And once that day is over, men like these will come back and say how great war, just had to change their tone.

​@@sugarkane4830as an american, our culture fetishizes fallen soldiers, praises active soldiers, and condemns and abuses those who came home, those who are anti-war or fascism, and those who suffer mentally or financially

I don’t think politicians & war dictators watch these kinda movies

I wish you all the best.I hope that she can process the trauma. If they need help, don't hesitate to take it.

that would require Paul to, you know, not die lol

​@@Eric0225Paul dies at the end of this one, too.

@@mooseclappin11 ah, but why he go back then?

@@Eric0225 at this point he went back him on leave, this isn't post war.

The teacher (Kantorek) is later called up as a reservist and sent to the front. He gets to experience it for himself and has a breakdown.

David Frigault Yes you are right in retrospect I confused some of his character with Himmelstoss. I must confess that it has been some years since reading the book.Himmelstoss went to the front and joined Paul's company where he suffered a breakdown whilst under fire for the first time. Later he did redeem himself by carrying Haie Westhus to safety whilst under fire. Kantorek is called up as a territorial (reservist) and is trained under the instruction of Mittelstadt who was one of his former students. Mittelstadt takes great pleasure in tormenting Kantorek with his own condescending phrases from the classroom. This is how my edition reads anyway.

*NO PAUL*

a lot of people that didn't deserve to be sent to the trenches were sent there anyway...do you have the power to send them back?...Didn't think so....so maybe be a little carrefull of who you want to send to the trenches!...good people ...bad people....machine gun fire and artillery do not disriminate

He actually gets drafted into the war later on in the story.

JJRJ 85 in the book he is.

TooCooFoYou did he survive ?

Remember, an art teacher started ww2...

Dude...you actually sound more like the teacher in this scene than you could ever possibly comprehend. Utterly narrow-minded, so sure that you know...so determined to impose on others your "knowledge."

I never paid for a movie again unless I was out with friends.

I might be wrong, but im fairly sure that this film was more or less banned during and even after WW2 for a good while in places like the US and UK... cant have truth being told during wartime, when you desperately need those bodies marching into the grinder.

They made one in 1979

I wonder if they watch war movies at all

They made 1917 in 2019 and it definitely touches on these very same themes.

Their "patriotic values" were in full display before the world in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq where they went and wrecked the livelihood of the poor people in those countries.

His role also inspired Ayres himself to become a conscientious objector in WWII at the cost of his career. He refused to fight but would become a non-combat medic during the war.

@@Nolaris3 Perhaps in a reflection of fact and fantasy intermeshing with one another, the pilot film of Battlestar Galactica (1978), saw Ayres playing the role of the President of the 12 colonies, whose blind zeal for peace with the Cylons almost causes the extinction of mankind.

No. The 1979 version is really good

But I have the 2022 version makes this seem like a coco melon music video

AQOTWF was not meant to be an action novel to be overtly CGI-ised on screen. This (2022) appalling version, has a parallel storyline undoubtedly catering for Daniel Bruhl's ego, as well as for the German masses! The Mattias Erzberger angle did not appear in the 1929 novel, nor in either of 2 subsequent films. One could argue that as there are no WW1 left, the zeitgeist of contemporary Europe can be satisfied by this German produced and acted film. Presenting the Germans as being equally victims of the Great War.

@@yottwr6108 Explain to me how the German youth were not also victims of WW1.

@@cigh7445 Did I say otherwise?

@Fabian Kirchgessner dont listen to these cowards. They are idiots, who preach irrational babble. They speak of war as a game. As men getting sent for no reason. They cant see the reason they have the ability to voice this opinion is because some old men sent young men to die. These people are weak. They are the reason slave masters will never quit trying to enslave the people. Slave masters hearing the voices pleading for peace at any cost is like a coyote hear a young calf bawl for its mother. No matter how many times the mother chases it off, the coyote always returns because the reward is worth the cost to the coyote. Its sad that these fools dont see that. Its sad that they patronage young men who paid that ultimate sacrfice by saying old men sent them there. No, most didnt die for old men. Most died for the belief that liberty was worth the scarfice. My name sake came from one of those determined, badads volunteers who knew the risk and choose to fight for something greater than himself. Choose to fight against his native born country, possibly fellow neighbors and family members. He volunteered to serve in the all american 82 and he volunteered for the duty that got him killed and awarded metals. He knew the chances to cross the river were slim to none, and slim left town when the bullets started firing, but they desperatly needed to rush a some bunker thing. He made succeed, but sadly died in the process. To say his ultimate scarfice, my grandfathers, uncles and someday very soon my sacrfice was all because some old men made us or wanted power is idiotic and insulting. I think, and will never not believe, that the protection of liberty must be paid for at any price. If you dont, i ask when did life become so dear and peace so sweet to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? If we choose to forsake liberty for our safety, we will not only allow all those great men who gave up their life for the dream of a better world but also send our future generations into a 1000 yrs of darkness. Call it warmongering and ill call you a coward. Who doesnt deserve to live and thrive off the fruit tree that you so much dislike. Go to south America. This land is the home if the free because of the brave.

@born free If you are fighting in wars now, you're not fighting for liberty, you're fighting for big business.

Terrorism propped up by the U.S. and their allies.

U.S. is literally allied with the number #1 sponsor of terrorism, Saudi Arabia. In fact over half of the 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. U.S. supports them as they continue to fund Al-Qaeda and ISIS. You can deny it all of you want, but these are the facts.

Then what is the issue then? The Taliban?

It’s anti-war. That’s why

Himmelstoss got sent to the line

It sure did on me. I grew up in a pro-war household. I saw this film as an impressionable teenager, maybe 13 years old. I borrowed it from Blockbuster because I was very interested in World War I at the time, but there were precious few films about it. When I found it, I was like, "DUDE! THIS IS GOING TO BE SO COOL!" It definitely was, but not in the way I expected. This film is what first got me to begin to understand the horror of war. It was the first step in questioning my pro-war beliefs. It may not have prevented WW2, but I know I'm not the only person this story influenced.

@@silverwriter6739 I’m glad to know that. It’s just too bad it didn’t reach more people

He'd sing a different tune when he sees it first hand.

I hope not...nowadys a remake would be nothing but leftwing/rightwing propaganda...maybe in 20-30 years

You do realize that Hitler burned this book, calling it leftwing propaganda, and killed the author's sister when the author fled the nationalists? That Gobbels called it, as you prefer to do, Marxist propaganda? Consider reading, dipshit.

Nooo please don't

They need to just leave this alone. I'm not sure that the Hollywood of today could make this film. To many agendas. The purity and depth of this version, although over 90 years old, keeps it fresh.

@@Enrico_Palazzo_opera_singer You’re an idiot.

The horrors of Napoleonic warfare from the 1860s was no different. Just because those who lived in that time doesn’t mean they lived those events.

@@griz312 Yes, however the highest achievment in those days were different. The franco prussian war was completely a german victory which had less stalls like in ww1. Generals to privates went home with glory. Anyone in higher standing probably fought the war. After the war, the fact that the myth that Germany never lost the war was able to rise to such prominence proves that even in this war. Many soldiers had a different experience than the movie portrays

pigwigpa and we are going to do it again because both n.Korea and America are run by people who don't care if people die for nothing.

actually, no if anything they sort of hindered it, before that people where just forced into war

Francisco León they also indoctrinate us to support the lizard people

just like today...only now they want to make cannon fodder for their gender neutral, marxist army

+quantum100 ...???...where is the wrong in supporting the lizard people?

Politico Shut up you bigoted lizardist! #LizardPeopleAreHumansToo

OMG, now you have pointed that out I cannot unsee it!