All Quiet on the Western Front

The German drama directed by Edward Berger has won four gold statuettes at the Academy Awards, including Best International Feature Film, Best Original Score, ...

The film has been critically acclaimed and has a score of 93 per cent on the review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes. And before the Oscars, the film dominated the BAFTA Awards with a record-breaking seven wins, including Best Film, Best Director for Edward Berger, Film Not in the English Language, Cinematography, and Adapted Screenplay among others The film, which has been the top choice of critics ever since its release on Netflix, has been adapted from the 1929 World War I novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.

A wrenching German adaptation of the classic war novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" clinched the Academy Award for best international feature on Sunday ...

Just one year after the book came out, a US film adaptation by Lewis Milestone was released. with unflinching images no one will easily forget," she said. Martin Schwickert of the RND media group called the film "frighteningly current in light of the Ukraine war", saying it "made plain what war means for those who have to fight it". "It tackles the horrors of a war in the heart of Europe in a harrowing way... In "All Quiet on the Western Front", World War I is viewed through the eyes of teenage German soldier Paul Baeumer (Kammerer), a volunteer on the Western front. The last German winner of best international feature (a category then known as best foreign language film) was "The Lives of Others" in 2007.

The anti-war drama won four Oscars, including for the haunting music composed by Volker Bertelmann, aka Hauschka. The German composer told DW how hard it ...

After that first screening in Berlin, I thought it would be great to score the film with an instrument that dates back to that era, and that also works like a machine. The current times, the strong script and the strong execution are also part of it. What was most difficult was actually not to put too much pathos and too much heroism into the music. And I felt like it needed a religious theme to go with the powerful war machine sound. I also thought about the fact that these five young men who go to war lose everything they dreamed of in a relatively short period of time, everything they actually are as humans. The only way to do that was to take short, iconic elements and have them pop up again and again, like an art installation.

A former Kent schoolboy has picked up an Oscar for Best Cinematography for his work on Netflix's anti-war epic.

People would live there in cowboy costumes for extensive periods of time with no electricity." [scooped a BAFTA last month](https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/amp/kent-schoolboy-favourite-to-win-oscar-282745/) for the same project. The Maidstone man previously named a little town near Sevenoaks as the "weirdest" place he has ever filmed.

The war movie that abhors war has won an Oscar for best international film, along with three other statues.

“I hope this gives me and a few others a bit of confidence to say, ‘Let’s just do it, let’s just do our movies.’” “Our urge was to talk about our guilt and our shame that we’ve brought and the terror that the two wars have caused in the world. Set during World War I, it follows the life of a young German soldier who enlists in the army with his friends. [“All Quiet on the Western Front,”](https://www.netflix.com/title/81260280) starring Felix Kammerer and directed and co-written by Edward Berger, earned nine nominations, including best picture. “Without you, none of us would be here.” “I'm a little bit on autopilot.”

Berger's film is more a companion to anti-war poetry than modern aphorisms against violence. Its meadows, snowy backdrops and stunning visual artistry, pit the ...

It’s also one of the reasons why a film that has been regarded so well internationally has been panned at home. It cheerfully manufactures the kind of stormy orgies of gunfire and grenades that only dilute the impact of the gestation the book was meant to evoke. The book used sobering minimalism to counteract the explosiveness of battle, or at least how it exists in the imagination of the people, and yet in Berger’s imagination, the violence continues to be relevant. It’s in their conversations, their yearnings for the past — as opposed to the future — that the pointlessness of war comes through. Here in the film, that egotism is shown to be sufficiently painted in the form of politicians wanting to do something about it. While it re-asserts the relevance of a classic, it also underlines the topicality of war as a route to making prescient art.

Berger's film is more a companion to anti-war poetry than modern aphorisms against violence. Its meadows, snowy backdrops and stunning visual artistry, pit the ...

It’s also one of the reasons why a film that has been regarded so well internationally has been panned at home. It cheerfully manufactures the kind of stormy orgies of gunfire and grenades that only dilute the impact of the gestation the book was meant to evoke. The book used sobering minimalism to counteract the explosiveness of battle, or at least how it exists in the imagination of the people, and yet in Berger’s imagination, the violence continues to be relevant. It’s in their conversations, their yearnings for the past — as opposed to the future — that the pointlessness of war comes through. Here in the film, that egotism is shown to be sufficiently painted in the form of politicians wanting to do something about it. While it re-asserts the relevance of a classic, it also underlines the topicality of war as a route to making prescient art.

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German pianist Volker Bertelmann picked up the musical award for his work on the German-language film, based on a novel of the same name.

[Which film scores have won at the Oscars? The Oscar is Bertelmann’s first win at the Academy Awards, having been nominated once before for the score of Lion (2016), an Australian biographical drama film. But with this, I recorded the breathing of the instrument, and I distorted it.

The German war drama, which won four Oscars, was funded by Netflix, entirely outside the country's tradition state subsidy system.

That [the most successful ](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-producer-film-resonance-oscars-1235339192/)German film ever at the Academy [Awards](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/awards/) was bankrolled by a U.S. Roth has called for a fundamental overhaul of Germany’s €600 million ($640 million) a year film funding system, citing All Quiet on the Western Front as an example of how filmmaking has transformed and why Germany’s very bureaucratic funding system needs to adjust. One of Roth’s proposals is to have Netflix and other major streaming companies contribute more to funding German movies. [Netflix](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/netflix/) film — fully financed outside Germany’s state subsidy system — was the cause of some handwringing. “A huge success for German cinema,” raved German Chancellor, or prime minister, Olaf Scholz in a message to Berger and his team. The culture minister used her opening night speech at this year’s Berlin Film Festival to make the point that streaming services have dramatically changed the “environment for creating, making and experiencing movies” and that the German funding system, which relies on financing and distribution from television broadcasters and theatrical distributors, is out of pace with the times. 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[All Quiet on the Western Front](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/all-quiet-on-the-western-front/) in Germany — Edward Berger’s groundbreaking World War I epic [won four Academy Awards](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-winners-list-1235349224/) at the 2023 [Oscars](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/oscars/) on Sunday night, including for [best international feature](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-oscar-international-feature-1235347552/), best score, best production design and best cinematography, a new record for German movie — there was some very Teutonic soul searching. [the movie’s technical excellence](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/oscars-2023-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-craft-1235347574/), as well as to Berger’s very distinct anti-war message. German Culture Minister Claudia Roth, who had traveled to Los Angeles for the Oscars, called Berger’s adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s anti-war classic “the right film at the right time,” as it shows “a war in Europe, in all its cruelty and brutality,” just as another such war, the war in Ukraine “is currently raging again in the heart of Europe.” [Share this article on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/&title=Oscars:%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix’s%20‘All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front’%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany’s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform&sdk=joey&display=popup&ref=plugin&src=share_button&app_id=1153511048447777) [Share this article on Twitter](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/&text=Oscars%3A%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix%E2%80%99s%20%E2%80%98All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front%E2%80%99%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany%E2%80%99s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform&via=thr) [Share this article on Email](mailto:?subject=thr%20:%20Oscars:%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix’s%20‘All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front’%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany’s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform&body=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/%20-%20Oscars:%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix’s%20‘All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front’%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany’s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform) [Show additional share options](#) [Share this article on Print]() [Share this article on Comment](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/#respond) [Share this article on Whatsapp](whatsapp://send?text=Oscars:%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix’s%20‘All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front’%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany’s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform%20-%20https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/) [Share this article on Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=1&url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/&title=Oscars:%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix’s%20‘All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front’%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany’s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform&summary&source=thr) [Share this article on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/&title=Oscars:%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix’s%20‘All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front’%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany’s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform) [Share this article on Pinit](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/link/?url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/&description=Oscars:%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix’s%20‘All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front’%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany’s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform) [Share this article on Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/widgets/share/tool/preview?shareSource=legacy&canonicalUrl&url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/&posttype=link&title=Oscars:%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix’s%20‘All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front’%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany’s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform)

The adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's 1929 anti-war novel Im Westen Nichts Neues has taken home four Oscars at the 2023 Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

“War has come so close to us this year,” added Roth. “No book is so good that you can’t turn it into a terrible film,” wrote Süddeutsche Zeitung critic Hubert Wetzel back in October, claiming Berger’s adaptation did not do justice to the 1920s literary classic. Accepting the awards, Swiss director Edward Berger thanked Felix Kammerer for his role as Paul Bäumer, the 17-year-old German soldier at the heart of the story.

With All Quiet on the Western Front having won plaudits at the Oscars and the Baftas, John Newsinger recalls how the author was persecuted.

The presiding judge made clear that she was being executed in place of her brother, and she was beheaded on 16 December 1943. It was a powerful update of All Quiet, exploring the horrors of German militarism and fascism on the Eastern Front. They denounced it as a “Judenfilm” and attacked anyone in the audience they thought looked Jewish. If he had not done this then he would have certainly been rounded up when the Nazis came to power and thrown into a concentration camp. By the end of the year, it had sold more than a million copies in Germany, 600,00 copies in Britain and 200,000 in the United States. It was an international success and was made into a Hollywood film the following year.

The WWI film, which was filmed in and around Prague in 2021, won Oscars for International Film, Sound, Cinematography, and Production Design.

- “Naatu Naatu” by Kala Bhairava, M. [The Whale](https://www.praguereporter.com/home/2023/2/22/the-whale-movie-review-brendan-fraser-is-devastating-in-bleak-aronofsky-drama/). She had to renew the film rights every year until then, eventually spending $200,000 on her passion project. Scottish triathlete Lesley Paterson, who won gold medals at the world championships in 2011, 2012, and 2018, became a big fan of the novel after studying it in school. “Without you, none of us would be here.” Director Edward Berger’s feature, which is now steaming on Netflix, won for Best International Film, Best Production Design, Best Score, and Best Cinematography.

13/03/2023 - Edward Berger's film is the only European feature to receive prizes during a ceremony swept by the US production Everything Everywhere All at ...

Did you enjoy reading this article? Best Actor [The Banshees of Inisherin](https://cineuropa.org/film/428355/) [+see also: [film review](en/newsdetail/429891/) [trailer](en/video/rdID/428355/f/t/) [film profile](en/film/428355/)] didn't manage to bag any awards, losing out to Everything Everywhere All at Once in most of the categories, especially the acting ones, in which the Irish-UK-US co-production had more chances of breaking through, thanks to the work of Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Barry Keoghan and Kerry Condon. Following a pair of estranged brothers who reunite following their mother's untimely death in rural Northern Ireland, the short trounced other European competitors, such as Le Pupille by Alice Rohrwacher. As widely expected after it earned nine nominations (see the [news](https://cineuropa.org/newsdetail/437309/)) and it triumphed at the BAFTAs (see the [news](https://www.cineuropa.org/newsdetail/438983/)), All Quiet on the Western Front won in several categories, including Best Cinematography (for James Friend), Best Original Score (for Volker Bertelmann), Best Production Design and, lastly, Best International Film, winning out over the favourites back in the early phases of the race, Lukas Dhont’s [Close](https://cineuropa.org/film/424233/) [+see also: [film review](en/newsdetail/426038/) [trailer](en/video/rdID/424233/f/t/) [interview: Eden Dambrine](en/video/437545/rdID/424233) [interview: Lukas Dhont](en/video/437548/rdID/424233) [interview: Lukas Dhont](en/interview/432769/) [film profile](en/film/424233/)] and Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985, as well as Jerzy Skolimowski’s [EO](https://cineuropa.org/film/424274/) [+see also: [film review](en/newsdetail/425637/) [trailer](en/video/rdID/424274/f/t/) [film profile](en/film/424274/)] and Colm Bairéad’s [The Quiet Girl](https://cineuropa.org/film/421296/) [+see also: [film review](en/newsdetail/421931/) [trailer](en/video/rdID/421296/f/t/) [interview: Colm Bairéad](en/interview/421318/) [film profile](en/film/421296/)]. The multiverse-themed film by directorial duo Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert swept the awards by receiving a total of seven statuettes, leaving little room for any of the other competitors.

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