Still from the movie »All Quiet on the Western Front»
»All Quiet on the Western Front» is a 2022 German anti-war epic film based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.
Still from the movie »All Quiet on the Western Front»
The film has received a total of 9 Oscar nominations and to date has already accumulated numerous awards, including the Bafta awards for Best Film and Best Foreign Language Film. It received a total of 14 nominations for these British film awards, taking home 9 of them, making it the non-English language film that has won the most Bafta awards.
Still from the movie »All Quiet on the Western Front»
Directed by Edward Berger, it stars Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Daniel Brühl, Sebastian Hülk, Aaron Hilmer, Edin Hasanovic and Devid Striesow.
Still from the movie »All Quiet on the Western Front»
The film, set during World War I, follows the life of an idealistic young German soldier named Paul Bäumer, played by Felix Kammerer.
Still from the movie »All Quiet on the Western Front»
After enlisting in the German army with his friends, Bäumer is exposed to the realities of war, shattering his early hopes of becoming a hero as he does his best to survive in a hostile and brutal environment he never expected.
Still from the movie »All Quiet on the Western Front»
The film adds a parallel plot, not found in the novel, that follows the armistice negotiations to end the war.
Still from the movie »All Quiet on the Western Front»
This parallel plot follows the figure of Matthias Erzberger, played by Daniel Brühl, a German writer and politician who spoke out against World War I and was the authorized representative of the Reich government who signed the armistice.
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In 1917, three years after the outbreak of World War I, 17-year-old Paul Bäumer enlists in the Imperial German Army with his friends Albert Kropp, Franz Müller and Ludwig Behm. They hear a patriotic speech from a school officer and unwittingly receive uniforms of soldiers killed in an earlier battle.
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After being deployed to northern France near La Malmaison, they befriend Stanislaus «Kat» Katczinsky, an older soldier. Their romantic vision of war is cut short by the reality of trench warfare on the Western Front, and Ludwig is killed by artillery on the first night.
Still from the movie »All Quiet on the Western Front»
Thus, the young men come face to face with the brutality of war, far from the image they had created of it and of their return home. From that moment on, the three friends will have to do everything possible to survive.
