When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
Stanislas 'Kat' Katczinsky
Louis Wolheim
Paul BĂ€umer
Lew Ayres
Himmelstoss
John Wray
Kantorek
Arnold Lucy
Franz Kemmerich
Ben Alexander
Leer
Scott Kolk
Peter
Owen Davis Jr.
Behn
Walter Rogers
Albert Kropp
William Bakewell
Mueller
Russell Gleason
Westhus
Richard Alexander
Detering
Harold Goodwin
Tjaden
Slim Summerville
Bertinck
G. Pat Collins
Paul's Mother
Beryl Mercer
Herr Meyer
Edmund Breese
2nd Medic Orderly (uncredited)
Ernie Adams
Anna BĂ€umer (uncredited)
Marion Clayton Anderson
French Girl (uncredited)
Poupée Andriot
Assistant Cook (uncredited)
Vince Barnett
Frau Kemmerick (uncredited)
Daisy Belmore
Young Soldier (uncredited)
Glen Boles
Joseph Hammacher (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin
Suzanne (uncredited)
Yola d'Avril
French Girl (uncredited)
Renée Damonde
Student (uncredited)
Arthur Gardner
GĂ©rard Duval (uncredited)
Raymond Griffith
Young Girl (uncredited)
Ellen Hall
Ginger - the Cook (uncredited)
William Irving
Minor Role (uncredited)
Frederick Kohner
Minor Role (uncredited)
Frank Leichtfried
1st Medic Orderly (uncredited)
Tom London
Sister Libertine (uncredited)
Bertha Mann
Poster Girl (uncredited)
Joan Marsh
Herr BĂ€umer (uncredited)
Edwin Maxwell
Schoolboy (uncredited)
Jack McHugh
Soldier (uncredited)
Maurice Murphy
Schoolboy (uncredited)
Robert Parrish
Mother of Hospital Patient (uncredited)
Bodil Rosing
Minor Role (uncredited)
Wolfgang Staudte
Minor Role (uncredited)
Jack Sutherland
Soldier (uncredited)
David Tyrell
Charwoman (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon
German Soldier / French Ambulance Driver (uncredited)
Fred Zinnemann