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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.