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DUBAI: There are numerous war films that, rather than glorifying fighting, grittily depict its misery and horror (Sam Mendes’ “1917” is perhaps the finest recent example), but few have done so in such a poetically brutal and memorable way as Netflix’s new German-language movie “All Quiet on the Western Front.” Based on Erich Maria Remarque’s classic anti-war novel from 1929,

Pittsburgh City Paper reviews the latest cinematic take on Erich Maria Remarque's book about the horrors of the first World War.

“All Quiet on the Western Front,” a German-language novel depicting young German soldiers fighting in World War I, was first published in November and December of 1928.

It’s spring 1917, the third year of war. In Northern Germany, a teenager forges his mother’s signature and joins the Kaiser’s army. His name is Paul Baumer, and his story will form the backbone of the best and most haunting war movie since 2008’s The Hurt Locker.

“All Quiet on the Western Front,” directed by Edward Berger, is hardly the first movie to argue — quite persuasively — that war is hell.

New Netflix movie All Quiet on the Western Front is getting rave reviews

All Quiet on the Western Front, novel by German writer Erich Maria Remarque, published in 1929 as Im Westen nichts Neues and in the United States as All Quiet on the Western Front. An antiwar novel set during World War I, it relies on Remarque’s personal experience in the war to depict the era’s broader disillusionment. The book is an account of Paul Baumer’s experiences in battle and his short career as a soldier, and it is primarily concerned with the effect of war on young men. Its tit...

MOVIES: All Quiet on the Western Front - Review

Erich Maria Remarques 1928 German novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" and Lewis Milestones 1930 landmark American film adaptation remain definitive anti-war statements. Neither the book nor the movie was vague about its "war is hell" message, and both sought to depict it realistically and truthfully. Of course controversies followed with some leading to bannings and book-burnings in several notable countries across the globe.

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