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Academy voters can’t keep quiet about their admiration forAll Quiet on the Western Front.
The World War I epic, Germany’s submission to theAcademy Awards, earned not only recognition in the Best International Film category but atotal of nine Oscar nominationsoverall. Those nods include Best Picture, as well as Best Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Original Score, Visual Effects, Sound, Makeup & Hairstyling, and Production Design.
Read on for everything to know aboutAll Quiet on the Western Frontandhow you can watch it prior tothe 95th annual Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, March 12.
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Who is in theAll Quiet on the Western Frontcast?
Newcomer Felix Kammerer stars as Paul Bäumer. The cast also includes Daniel Brühl, who is known forInglourious Basterdsplus playing villain Baron Zemo in the Marvel Cinematic Universe starting with 2016’sCaptain America: Civil War.
TheAll Quiet on the Western Frontcast also includes Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer, Moritz Klaus, Edin Hasanovic, Adrian Grünewald, Thibault De Montalembert and Devid Striesow.
IsAll Quiet on the Western Frontbased on a book?
The book was also adapted into a film in 1930 from director Lewis Milestone, who won an Oscar for his work. It also won Outstanding Production and was nominated for Writing and Cinematography at the time.
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What isAll Quiet on the Western Frontabout?
The two-and-a-half-hour movie is about a 17-year-old German solider named Paul’s grueling experience on the Western Front of World War I in 1917. It’s rated R for strong bloody war violence and grisly images.
According to an official synopsis, “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.”
Director Edward Bergertold the A.V. Clubthat “unfortunately, this type of movie is always relevant.” He said, “Even now we have a very unfortunate, timely relevance with Ukraine that we couldn’t foresee. But we had war 10 years ago and we’ll have it again in 10 years, unfortunately, so that subject matter somehow never gets old. But educational, I’m not sure. I don’t want to educate, I’m just a filmmaker. I tell stories and then you ideally draw your own conclusion and take it home and everyone’s going to be different.”
Where can I watchAll Quiet on the Western Front?
All Quiet on the Western Frontdebuted in select theaters and on Netflix on Oct. 28, 2022. It iscurrently available to watchon the streaming service.
source: people.com
