'All Quiet on the Western Front,' Germany's entry at the Academy Awards, shows the horrors of World War I from the unique perspective of the nation that triggered and lost two world wars.
The Netflix film enters the March 12 ceremony with nine nominations, including best picture and international film . It tells the heart wrenching story of a 17-year-old German solider deployed to the trenches of France, where he and his comrades experience first-hand how their initial patriotic euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as they fight for their lives.
The movie has an eerie timeliness as young European men are again killing each other in trenches after Russia invaded Ukraine last year. Netflix’s adaptation was released in October and has already seen success on multiple levels. It won seven awards at last month’s EE BAFTA Film Awards, including the influential ceremony’s best picture honor. It has, since its release, been among the most watched non-English films on Netflix in the U.S., according to the streaming service.
Berger, who read “All Quiet on the Western Front” as a teenager and “was profoundly impacted and influenced by it,” said that with the rise of populism and isolationism in recent years in Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere, he felt it was the right time to make a new version.
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