A Farewell to Arms

original title:
A Farewell to Arms
other titles:
(In einem anderen Land)
country / year of production:
USA / 1932
original length:
80 min. , black/white
premiere:
8 December 1932
genre:
melodrama
based on:
Ernest Hemingway. »A Farewell To Arms«. New York: Scribner's Sons, 1929.
director:
Frank Borzage
film script:
Oliver H.P. Garrett , Benjamin Glazer
producer:
cinematographer:
Charles Lang
editor:
George Nichols Jr. , Otho Lovering
composer:
Bernhard Kaun , Herman Hand , W. Franke Harling , John Leipold , Paul Marquardt , Ralph Rainger , Milan Roder
cast (role):
Helen Hayes (Catherine Barkley) , Gary Cooper (Lt. Frederic Henry) , Adolphe Menjou , Mary Philips , Jack La Rue , Blanche Frederici , Mary Forbes
more:
plot synopsis:
During the First World War on the Italian Alpine front: The American Red Cross driver Lt. Henry and nurse Catherine fall in love and have a torrid affair, which results in Catherine’s pregnancy. As the months pass, Henry and Catherine lose contact with each other. To save their love from war they escape to Switzerland, where the baby is still born and Catherine dies at childbirth.
keywords:
medical orderly , escape , women during wartime , mountains
war:
First World War (1914-1918)
literature:
P. Subba Rao. "Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls: Two Classic American Novels as War Movies". In: Indian Journal of American Studies 25 (1995) 2, 147-154.
remarks:
Won two "Oscars" in 1934.
availability:
VHS, DVD