All Quiet on the Western Front

    All Quiet on the Western Front
    2022

    Synopsis

    Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.

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    Cast

    • Felix KammererPaul Bäumer
    • Albrecht SchuchStanislaus "Kat" Katczinsky
    • Aaron HilmerAlbert Kropp
    • Moritz KlausFranz Müller
    • Adrian GrünewaldLudwig Behm
    • Edin HasanovićTjaden Stackfleet
    • Daniel BrühlMatthias Erzberger
    • Thibault de MontalembertGeneral Ferdinand Foch
    • Devid StriesowGeneral Friedrichs
    • Andreas DöhlerLieutenant Hoppe

    Recommendations

    • 90

      Slashfilm

      Rather than portray its characters as glorious heroes bravely fighting for their country, or even ending the film on an optimistic note, "All Quiet on the Western Front" is tragic from beginning to end, and is relentlessly, almost unbearably, bleak. That's the point. It's the ultimate anti-war war film.
    • 88

      TheWrap

      This is a war movie from the perspective of the losers, visually spectacular but by turns infuriating and heartbreaking. “All Quiet” is excessive, but it probably needs to be; the screenplay by Berger, Lesley Paterson and Ian Stokell takes a dark story and makes it even darker.
    • 83

      The Playlist

      Regardless of its minor flaws, Berger and his crew have crafted a faithful and heart-wrenching adaptation that fully realizes the novel’s trenchant anti-war themes.
    • 83

      Original-Cin

      All Quiet on the Western Front exists to make the viewer uncomfortable – infinitely preferable to what the characters endure.
    • 80

      Screen Daily

      Edward Berger returns to the German source material, adding some twists and turns, in a wrenching, visceral adaptation of a work that is almost a century old, written when ruined veterans could still hear the sound of the gunfire in their dreams.
    • 80

      Time Out

      History nerds will note the strenuous efforts to capture the realities of the conflict, but the film’s use of smart Spielbergian grace notes to share its emotional truths is a real strength, too.
    • 75

      IndieWire

      The onslaught of death is more relentless (and numbing) here, yes. But we don’t know these young men as well when they do meet their deaths, which makes the loss hurt just a little less.
    • 75

      San Francisco Chronicle

      There are dull stretches — interrupted by moments of terror — but that’s not really a complaint for a movie such as this. “All Quiet on the Western” is only partly a narrative. It’s also an immersive experience, an invitation to walk in someone else’s shoes, albeit from the safe side of a screen.

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