A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I. Together with several other young German soldiers, he experiences the horrors of war, such evil of which he had not conceived of when signing up to fight. They eventually become sad, tormented, and confused of their purpose.
Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy, Ben Alexander, Scott Kolk, Owen Davis Jr., Walter Rogers, William Bakewell, Russell Gleason, Richard Alexander, Harold Goodwin, Slim Summerville, G. Pat Collins, Beryl Mercer, Edmund Breese, Ernie Adams, Marion Clayton Anderson, Poupée Andriot, Vince Barnett, Daisy Belmore, Glen Boles, Heinie Conklin, Yola d'Avril, Renée Damonde, Arthur Gardner, Raymond Griffith, Ellen Hall, William Irving, Frederick Kohner, Frank Leichtfried, Tom London, Bertha Mann, Joan Marsh, Edwin Maxwell, Jack McHugh, Maurice Murphy, Robert Parrish, Bodil Rosing, Wolfgang Staudte, Jack Sutherland, David Tyrell, Dorothy Vernon, Fred Zinnemann
