All Quiet on the Western Front (2022 film) facts for kids
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| Directed by | Edward Berger |
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| Music by | Volker Bertelmann |
| Cinematography | James Friend |
| Editing by | Sven Budelmann |
| Studio | Amusement Park |
| Distributed by | Netflix |
| Release date(s) | September 12, 2022 (TIFF) October 28, 2022 (Netflix) |
| Running time | 147 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
| Budget | $20 million |
All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues), sometimes shortened to All Quiet, is a 2022 German-language epic anti-war film based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque. Directed by Edward Berger, it stars Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Daniel Brühl, Sebastian Hülk, Aaron Hilmer, Edin Hasanovic, and Devid Striesow.
Set during World War I, it follows the life of an idealistic young German soldier named Paul Bäumer. After enlisting in the German Army with his friends, Bäumer finds himself exposed to the realities of war, shattering his early hopes of becoming a hero as he does his best to survive. The film adds a parallel storyline not found in the book, which follows the armistice negotiations to end the war.
All Quiet on the Western Front premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2022, and was released to streaming on Netflix on October 28. The film received positive reviews from critics, with praise directed towards its tone and faithfulness to the source material's anti-war message. It received a leading 14 nominations at the 76th British Academy Film Awards (winning seven, including Best Film) and nine at the 95th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and won four including the Academy Awards for Best International Feature, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score and Best Production Design, becoming the joint fourth most-awarded foreign-language film to achieve this feat after Fanny and Alexander (1982), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), and Parasite (2019).
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Cast
- Felix Kammerer as Paul Bäumer
- Albrecht Schuch as Stanislaus "Kat" Katczinsky
- Aaron Hilmer as Albert Kropp
- Moritz Klaus as Franz Müller
- Adrian Grünewald as Ludwig Behm
- Edin Hasanovic as Tjaden Stackfleet
- Daniel Brühl as Matthias Erzberger
- Thibault de Montalembert as General Ferdinand Foch
- Devid Striesow as General Friedrichs
- Andreas Döhler as Lieutenant Hoppe
- Sebastian Hülk as Major Von Brixdorf
Production
The film was announced in February 2020 with Edward Berger directing and Daniel Brühl as part of the ensemble cast. Principal photography began on 9 March 2021 in Prague, Czech Republic, and lasted 55 days. The film cost $20 million.
Release
All Quiet on the Western Front premiered at the 47th Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2022. It played exclusively at the Paris Theater in New York on October 7 before expanding to other theatres from October 14. It launched on Netflix, which acquired distribution rights prior to production, worldwide on October 28. From its release on Netflix to March 3, 2023, the film logged over 150 million hours viewed worldwide. Viewership tripled after the film's Oscar and BAFTA nominations, and was on the global Top 10 Non-English Film list for 14 weeks and in the Top 10 Films in 91 countries.
A making-of documentary called Making All Quiet on the Western Front was released on Netflix globally on February 20, 2023. A Collector's Edition Blu-ray release is scheduled for March 28, 2023, in the United States and April 24, 2023, in the United Kingdom.
See also
In Spanish: Sin novedad en el frente (película de 2022) para niños
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1979 film)
- List of submissions to the 95th Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film
