The Other Side (1931)

Movie
Original title	The other side
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1931
length	107 minutes
Rod
Director	Heinz Paul
script	RC Sherriff Hans Reisiger Hella Moja
production	Joseph Candolini
music	Ernst Erich Buder
camera	Viktor Gluck
cut	Max Brenner
occupation
Conrad Veidt : Captain Stanhope Theodor Loos : First Lieutenant Osborne Friedrich Ettel : Captain Hardy Viktor de Kowa : Lieutenant Hibbert Wolfgang Liebeneiner : Lieutenant Raleigh Paul Otto : Colonel Jack Mylong coin : Willy Trenk-Trebitsch : Cook Reinhold Bernt : Sergeant

The other side is an anti-war film by director Heinz Paul from 1931 . The main roles are occupied by Conrad Veidt , Theodor Loos and Friedrich Ettel as well as Viktor de Kowa . The novel Journey's End by RC Sherriff served as the template for the script .

The film premiered on October 29, 1931.

action

On the evening of March 18, 1918, shortly before the German spring offensive , the young English lieutenant Raleigh was transferred to the western front in Captain Stanhope's company. He is happy to meet Stanhope, whom he knows from before and who is engaged to his sister. The war changed Stanhope, however; he's disaffected and turned into an alcoholic. However, he tries to continue to maintain the image of the exemplary officer. Fearing that Raleigh might write the truth about him to his sister, he censors the letter, which only says good things about him.

Lieutenant Osborne and Raleigh are said to have captured a German during an advance against the German lines so that they can interrogate him. Osborne is killed and Raleigh is confronted with the horrors of war. After Raleigh is badly wounded in an attack by the Germans, he is taken to Stanhope, where he dies in the latter's arms.

Finally, the British officer's shelter was hit by grenades and destroyed.

criticism

"A sincere film against the war - in a sense the German version of Nothing New in the West, " said the lexicon of international films .

Web links

• The other side in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Movie poster on filmposter-archiv.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The other side. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 19, 2018 .