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Three comrades

A poignant love story centered around the lives of three young, disillusioned returned soldiers caught up in the turmoil of post World War I Germany. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis. Careful self-censorship by M-G-M lessened the films impact as an indictment of Nazi Germany, yet despite the Hollywood makeover of Remarque's novel (he also wrote 'All Quiet on the Western Front') the film still conveys the haunting sense of hopelessness and waste felt by a generation of youth indelibly marked by the war and its consequences.

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  • "A poignant love story centered around the lives of three young, disillusioned returned soldiers caught up in the turmoil of post World War I Germany. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis. Careful self-censorship by M-G-M lessened the films impact as an indictment of Nazi Germany, yet despite the Hollywood makeover of Remarque's novel (he also wrote 'All Quiet on the Western Front') the film still conveys the haunting sense of hopelessness and waste felt by a generation of youth indelibly marked by the war and its consequences."@en
  • "A poignant love story centered around the lives of three young, disillusioned returned soldiers caught up in the turmoil of post-World War I Germany. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis."@en
  • ""At the end of World War I, three German soldiers, Erich Lohkamp, Otto Koster and Gottfried Lenz, have fatalistic attitudes about the future. With their only hope in their friendship, the three comrades open a taxi and auto repair business and are barely able to eke out a living. One day, to celebrate the birthday of Erich, the youngest and least cynical of the three, Otto and Gottfried drive him to a country inn where they meet Patricia Hollmann, a young aristocrat who is now impoverished. Though Patricia is worldly, she is drawn to the innocent Erich. Otto and Gottfried encourage the relationship, feeling that their love will be the group's only salvation, but Erich feels that Pat's background will keep them apart. When she invites him to the opera, they run into Herr Breuer, a wealthy man who wants to support Pat, and he invites them to a nightclub. There Erich's borrowed tuxedo starts to fall apart, after which he curtly leaves in embarassment. Later that night, Pat is waiting for him outside his apartment and the two realize that they are in love. Some time later, while Gottfried tries to convince Erich to marry Pat, despite their poverty, Otto tries to convince her to marry Erich. When he presses her for an answer, she reveals that she had been very ill and will be ill again because of her lungs. Otto convinces her that she should marry Erich, no matter how brief their happiness might be, and she finally agrees. On their honeymoon, Pat collapses as she and Erich, who does not know of her illness, are playing on the beach. When the local doctor reveals her condition to him, and says that she may die if her hemorrhaging does not stop, Erich calls Otto to find Pat's specialist, Dr. Felix Jaffe. Driving wildly through fog in his beloved roadster 'Baby, ' Otto brings Dr. Jaffe in time to save Pat, but the doctor warns that she must go to a sanitarium no later than the middle of October. Through the summer, Otto, Erich, Gottfried and Pat are happy with one another, even though they worry about her health. The idealistic Gottfried, however, is torn between his devotion to them and his belief in the teachings of political pacifist Dr. Heinrich Becker. On the day that Pat must leave for the sanitarium, Gottfried is shot to death by thugs who are trying to kill Becker. Now faced with the loss of Gottfried as well Pat's absence, Erich and Otto sell their shop and drift through the next months, trying to find Gottfried's killer. At Christmas, Otto finally finds the murderer and shoots him in self-defense. That same night, Erich receives word from Pat that she must have an operation to collapse her lung. When Otto and Erich visit her, they learn that the operation will cost over one thousand marks, so Otto decides to sell 'Baby' to pay for it. After the operation, Pat must stay very still or endanger her life. When Otto goes to see her, he admits that Gottfried is dead and that he has sold 'Baby, ' and she tells him that their self-sacrifices for her must stop. Though he tries to encourage her to live for Erich, as Otto leaves the sanitarium, Pat walks to the window. She is seen by Erich, who reaches her in time to hear her say that she doesn't mind dying, because she has done the right thing. After Pat's funeral, Otto and Erich decide to move to South America. As they leave the cemetary, the spirits of Gottfried and Pat walk beside them"--AFI catalog, 1931-1940."@en
  • "Three veterans of the German army, set up a business in nihilistic postwar Berlin. But their formerly heroic lives seem meaningless, until they meet an impoverished English aristocrat who give them all she has - her transcendence."@en

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  • "Political films and programs"
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