In this movie we enter the lives of German schoolboys barely out of their teens. This movie is about young men who entered the war because they decide they should do their duty and defend there country. After all, they assumed, the war shouldn't take so long and they'll be coming back home fast. Paul Baumer is fascinated by the sabre being worked up by his professor and along with his congruous friends, Kantorek, Franz …showed first 75 words of 449 total…

…showed last 75 words of 449 total…only companion while he watches other soldier's drinking water and getting ready. Paul notices through his shot hole, a butterfly near a can a beautiful picture on a field of death. Against all reason, he attempts to touch the delicate peas of life and when he is unable to do this from a safe position behind the sandbags bordering the trench, he leans over the top and gets a bullet shot in to his head.