Paul and Kat steal a goose from a French farm
Eighteen months on, Kat leads Paul on a raid for food and they flee an angry farmer with the bird.
Stanislaus 'Kat' Katczinsky's Best Moments
Every All Quiet on the Western Front moment featuring Stanislaus 'Kat' Katczinsky, in story order. Played by Albrecht Schuch.
10 moments · 22 min · by Favseen
- 01
- 02
Goose feast, a rowdy song and Tjaden's Nazareth joke
The squad shares the stolen goose, sings about it, and laughs at Tjaden's school story about his father.
- 03
Paul reads Kat his wife's letter and learns of his son
Kat cannot read, so Paul reads his wife's letter aloud and discovers Kat lost a child; then wonders how they'll ever go home.
- 04
The search for missing recruits ends in a gassed trench
Sent to find sixty new boys, the squad uncovers a dugout full of recruits who removed their masks too early.
- 05
Albert is shot surrendering as Paul flees the line
Albert's surrender ends in gunfire, and a shattered Paul retreats realising he has left Franz behind.
- 06
Tjaden turns a fork on himself rather than lose his leg
Paul and Kat bring soup to the wounded Tjaden, who uses the cutlery to end his own life.
- 07
Kat by the fire: I'm a pair of boots with a rifle
Paul confesses his mother warned him off the war; Kat calls it a fever nobody asked for and tells him they are the lucky ones.
- 08
Kat plans Christmas and orders Paul to university
Hearing the war is over, Kat dreams of roast goose and children, and insists Paul make something of his schooling.
- 09
Wounded Kat finds the rhyme: rifle with trifle
Shot by the farmer's son, Kat jokes about his school days and a rhyme as Paul carries him to find a medic.
- 10
The medic tells Paul that Kat is already dead
Paul insists Kat is only unconscious until the medic shows him otherwise: bad luck, right before the end.