PREVIEW: All Quiet on the Western Front (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Daniel Brühl (Rush), Albrecht Schuch (Measuring the World), Felix Kammerer (David im Wunderland), Moritz Klaus (Little Murders), Aaron Hilmer (Sex, Pity and Loneliness), Edin Hasanović (Relativity), Devid Striesow (The Counterfeiters), Sebastian Hülk (The White Ribbon)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Edward Berger (Jack), director, writer, producer; Lesley Paterson (film debut) and Ian Stokell (film debut), writers; Daniel Marc Dreifuss (No) and Malte Grunert (A Most Wanted Man), producers; Volker Bertelmann (Lion), composer; James Friend (Instruments of Darkness), cinematographer; Sven Budelmann (The Physician), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

During the First World War, German teenagers Paul (Kammerer), Albert (Hilmer) and Müller (Klaus) enthusiastically enlist in the army and are shipped to No Man’s Land, where their patriotic spirits are crumbled upon seeing the true toll of war…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The first all-German adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s famed anti-war novel – which previously spawned two English-language versions, including the third-ever film to win the Best Picture Oscar in 1930 – brings its stark and depressingly timeless themes to newer audiences.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 28TH OCTOBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX

 

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