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There are many amazing things in Lewis Milestone's anti-war film but perhaps the most remarkable is how well it has aged. Not just the central message or the power of the many iconic scenes but the way it's made and acted; this thing was made three years after The Jazz Singer yet all vestiges of silent movies are gone apart from one odd segment of fast-cranked film in a trench battle. If you were unfamiliar with the cast you'd believe this was made 30 years later. While the story is told from the German point of view (daring enough in itself in the interwar period) the lack of accents and a bigger picture (it's largely left unsaid who exactly the company are actually fighting) give it an everyman feel without wandering off into existentialism or clumsy satire.
The first modern feature film?