‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ Movie Trailer
Netflix has released the official trailer for All Quiet On The Western Front, Germany’s official country selection in the Best International Feature Film category at the 2023 Oscars.
Directed by Edward Berger, the film is a new take on the classic 1929 novel by Erich Maria Remarque. The trailer opens with a quote from the novel, which sets up the film’s premise, “We have so much to say, and we shall never say it,” signaling a promise to “show the true face of World War I.” The book was also the source material for the eponymous 1930 Best Picture Oscar-winner.
The film tells the story of a young German soldier, played by Felix Kammerer, 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. Daniel Brühl, Sebastian Hülk, Albrecht Schuch, and Anton von Lucke also star.
Maria Remarque’s anti-war classic gets its first German-language adaptation for the screen, after the Hollywood versions of 1930 and 1979; it’s a powerful, eloquent, conscientiously impassioned film from director and co-writer Edward Berger. Newcomer Felix Kammerer plays Paul, the German teenage boy who joins up with his schoolfriends in a naive patriotic fervour towards the end of the first world war, excitedly looking forward to an easy, swaggering march into Paris. Instead, he finds himself in a nightmare of bloodshed and chaos.
All Quiet On The Western Front boasts a large cast of some of Germany’s leading actors. Daniel Brühl plays real-life anti-war writer and diplomat Matthias Erzberger. US viewers will recognize Brühl from his countless film and series roles, with notable appearances in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, The Alienist, and The King’s Man. He also appeared in The Bourne Ultimatum, Inglourious Basterds, and Captain America: Civil War.
Austrian newcomer Felix Kammerer turns in a star-making performance as the young Paul Bäumer, who goes from unbridled euphoria to abject terror after witnessing the brutal deaths of his friends and being assigned the task of collecting their dog tags. Bäumer becomes a close friend of Stanislaus “Kat” Katczinsky, played by Albrecht Schuch, an illiterate cobbler whose wife’s letters are read to him by Bäumer. The cast also includes Moritz Klaus, Aaron Hilmer, Edin Hasanović, Adrian Grünewald, Devid Striesow, Andreas Döhler, Sebastian Hülk, Alexander Schuster, Luc Feit, Michael Wittenborn, Michael Stange, André Marcon, Tobias Langhoff, and Anton von Lucke.
All Quiet on the Western Front is released on on 28 October on Netflix.
