All Quiet on the Western Front [DVD]

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In 1917, three years into World War I, 17-year-old Paul Bäumer enlists in the Imperial German Army alongside friends Albert Kropp, Franz Müller, and Ludwig Behm. They listen to a patriotic speech by a school official and unknowingly receive uniforms from soldiers killed in a previous battle. After they are deployed in Northern France near La Malmaison, they are befriended by Stanislaus "Kat" Katczinsky, an older soldier. Their romantic view of the war is shattered by the realities of trench warfare on the Western Front, and Ludwig is killed by artillery on the first night.

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Bradshaw, Peter (October 12, 2022). " All Quiet on the Western Front review – anti-war nightmare of bloodshed and chaos". The Guardian. Archived from the original on October 13, 2022 . Retrieved October 14, 2022. Kilb, Andreas (September 28, 2022). " Im Westen nichts Neues: Ein Krieg aus dem Katalog"[ All Quiet on the Western Front: A War from the Catalog]. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Archived from the original on March 8, 2023 . Retrieved March 2, 2023. All Quiet on the Western Front premiered at the 47th Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2022. It played exclusively at the Paris Theater in New York on October 7 before expanding to other theatres from October 14. [14] It launched on Netflix, which acquired distribution rights prior to production, [15] worldwide on October 28. [16] From its release on Netflix to March 3, 2023, the film logged over 150 million hours viewed worldwide. Viewership tripled after the film's Oscar and BAFTA nominations, and was on the global Top 10 Non-English Film list for 14 weeks and in the Top 10 Films in 91 countries. [17]Anderson, Erik (January 7, 2023). "2022 Georgia Film Critics Association (GAFCA) nominations". AwardsWatch. Archived from the original on January 7, 2023 . Retrieved January 7, 2023. Neglia, Matt (January 6, 2023). "The 2022 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Nominations". Next Best Picture. Archived from the original on January 6, 2023 . Retrieved January 6, 2023. Barber, Nicholas (February 27, 2023). "Germans are right to be incensed by All Quiet on the Western Front: It paints them as the good guys". The Guardian. Archived from the original on March 2, 2023 . Retrieved March 2, 2023. Anti-war novel All Quiet On The Western Front revived through German eyes". The Straits Times. October 2, 2022. Not every viewer will be willing or able to sit through two and a half hours of epic, bloody, graphically violent war reenactments. But those who do make it through this third film version (and the first in German) of the classic German novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, will be rewarded with a subtly humane tale of friendship, endurance, and the value of human life. The violence serves the story and its message. Director Edward Berger and team have done a jaw-dropping job of choreographing battlefield scenes, shooting them often at eye level and embedded in the trenches, giving the viewer the impression of being in the mix. A disquieting score relies heavily on single, melancholic beats that come and go with the action. Newcomer Kammerer is excellent as the wide-eyed recruit who barely withstands each passing day of tragedy.