The teaser trailer for Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front opens with the declaration this story is “neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure for those who stand face to face with it.” Those words are lifted directly from Erich Maria Remarque’s classic novel and appear to signify how faithful this 2022 film adaptation will be to the source material.
That passage in Remarque’s novel continues: “It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war.”
Adapted by Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, and Ian Stokell, and directed by Berger, All Quiet on the Western Front will have its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival followed by an exclusive run at New York’s Paris Theater on October 7th. A limited release follows on October 14th before it arrives on Netflix on October 28th.
Berger is the first German director to helm an adaptation of the novel. Germany has named the film as its official International Film contender for the 2023 Academy Awards.
The cast includes Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer, Moritz Klaus, Edin Hasanovic, Adrian Grünewald, Thibault De Montalembert, Daniel Brühl, and Devid Striesow.
The Plot: All Quiet on the Western Front tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Paul and his comrades experience first-hand how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as they fight for their lives, and each other, in the trenches.
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