Review: War is hell (again) in Netflix's new adaptation of 'All Quiet on the Western Front'
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Oct 28, 2022
4 minutes
"All Quiet on the Western Front," directed by Edward Berger, is hardly the first movie to argue — quite persuasively — that war is hell. It is, however, the first filmed adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's seminal World War I novel in which the Germans actually speak German. The book's prior screen incarnations — Lewis Milestone's Oscar-winning 1930 film, Delbert Mann's 1979 telefilm — featured platoons of English-speaking actors cast as men with names like Kropp, Müller and Tjaden, a choice that made for some cognitive dissonance but scarcely mitigated their dramatic power or purpose. And that purpose — to
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