All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

a.k.a Im Westen nichts Neues

Director: Edward Berger

Plot Synopsis

A young German soldier (Felix Kammerer)'s terrifying experiences and distress on the western front during World War I.

Male Deaths

• Adrian Grünewald [Ludwig Behm]
• Edin Hasanovic [Tjaden Stackfleet]
• Aaron Hilmer [Albert Kropp]
• Felix Kammerer [Paul Bäumer]
• Jakob Schmidt [Heinrich Gerber]
• Albrecht Schuch [Stanislaus "Kat" Katczinsky]
• Marek Simbersky [Gérard Duval]

Female Deaths

• None

Gallery

Jakob Schmidt

Adrian Grünewald

Aaron Hilmer

Marek Simbersky

Edin Hasanovic

Albrecht Schuch

Felix Kammerer

Trivia

1. Official submission of Germany for the 'Best International Feature Film' category of the 95th Academy Awards in 2023.
2. This will be the third rendition of this story. The other two are the renowned Academy Award-winning Best Picture version, Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), and the lesser known version by Delbert Mann, All Quiet on the Western Front (1979). This is also said to be the most expensive German film in the history of Netflix.
3. Erich Maria Remarque's book was inspired by his own experiences as a German soldier in World War I. It is notable for its realistic depiction of the horrors of battle, and the trouble soldiers face during and even after the fighting.
4. The French tanks shown are Saint-Chamonds. Between 350 and 400 were produced between April 1917 and July 1918. The Saint-Chamond weighed 23 tonnes, had a theoretical top speed of 7.5 mph (almost never achieved in action) and was armed with a 75mm heavy gun. It was widely disliked by its operators because of its poor trench-crossing ability and because its heavy nose often caused it to bog down. By the end of the war it had been all but phased out, to be replaced by the Renault FT. One surviving Saint-Chamond is in a museum in France.
5. The director used a military area and an airfield north of Prague to film the battlefield. It was a huge mud field, the size of 10 football fields.
6. This film is not technically positioned as a remake of an older movie, but a re-adaptation of a book. Ian Stokell and Lesley Paterson wrote the script based on the 1928 novel by Erich Maria Remarque.
7. Felix Kammerer, to fit his body to the role, had to put on a 10kg vest and ran 10 km with it every day for months.
8. Film debut of Felix Kammerer.
9. This film has been in the works for several years. Mimi Leder and Roger Donaldson were originally attached to direct Ian Stokell and Lesley Paterson's script.
10. One of the trenches' locations took up a space that was 1 kilometer long and 600 meters wide.
11. Director Edward Berger chose Marek Svitek to train the acting team on the clashes and shooting scenes. They were training in military simulation using real firearms.
12. Travis Fimmel was going to play Stanislaus Katczinsky when Roger Donaldson was attached to direct the film.
13. At the beginning of the film, after the main group of friends have donned their uniforms, there is a shot that tracks across them marching and singing confidently with the rest of the soldiers. The camera shows them in the order that they die in the film- Ludwig, Kropp, Franz (off-screen), and finally Paul.
14. The title, "All Quiet on the Western Front", refers to the ending of the novel the movie is based on, where the reader is told that the only report on that day was "there was nothing new to report on the Western Front".