The last battle really compounds it, what was once a quiet tragedy a month before Armistice a desperate battle that's 15 minutes from the end of the war that I knew in my heart of hearts was going to kill Paul seconds before the war ends and I was not wrong. Winner of 7 BAFTAs, including in the categories of Best Film, Best Director, Best Film Not in the English Language and Best Adapted Screenplay.

James Friend's cinematography and Volker Bertelmann's score received widespread praise and earned them numerous accolades, including the awards for Best Cinematography and Best Original Score, respectively, at the 95th Academy Awards. Visually impressive as ever, one scene stands out for its introduction to modernity in the form of tanks and flamethrowers, sitting somewhere between the Hoth battle in The Empire Strikes Back and the debut of the monster in a Kaiju flick. This tells us the remainder of the film is constricted into 4 days, as we know from history class the war ended on the 11th. I realize there is discussion about this in the huge DV thread but don't follow some of the discussion.Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. A year later, under the now accepted English title All Quiet On The Western Front, the first film adaptation appeared, becoming the first film to win Oscars for both Best Picture and Best Director. Sadly, and with bitter irony, without these wars we would not be able to progress and evolve as a global society if these disputes had not been settled or forced to end. Im Westen nichts Neues: Ein Krieg aus dem Katalog" [ All Quiet on the Western Front: A War from the Catalog].

The performances are truly incredible, the technical achievement recreating scenes of war outstanding, and the messages as clear as any about the futility of armed combat and the inability of the human race to learn its lessons - even to this day. If it is to open the eyes of modern audiences about World War I or fire their imagination, it stands as an urgent and potent piece of cinema.The film received positive reviews with praise directed towards its tone, the cinematography, the makeup, the performances, Volker Bertelmann's musical scores, Berger's direction, and the relevant anti-war message, [4] however critics were divided over the film's faithfulness to Remarque's source material, [5] with several key sequences from the novel being omitted or altered. He also praised the addition of a parallel plot tracking the armistice, even if it diverged from the first person narrative of the novel.