All Quiet at the Western Front (2022)

The film All Quiet at the Western Front is based on the

1929 novel of the same name by Erich Maria
Remarque. The film was directed by Edward Berger. It
stars Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Daniel Brühl,
Sebastian Hülk, Aaron Hilmer, Edin Hasanovic and
Devid Striesow. The film won 4 Academy Awards as
best international feature film, best original score, best
production design, best cinematography, among
others.

The film is set in the West part of Germany during

World War I (1914 - 1918). It was filmed on location in
Prague, Czech Republic.

The film is about a 17-year-old boy, Paul Bämer who

enlists in the Imperial German Army with his friends,
during 1917, three years into World War I. After they were deployed in Northern France, they
met Stanislaus “Kat” Katczinsky, an older soldier who had a romantic view of the war.
On November 7, 1918, German State Secretary Matthias Erzberger, met with German High
Command to persuade them to begin armistice talks with the Allied powers. Days later,
Erzberger and the German delegation boarded a train bound for the Forest of Compiégne to
negotiate a ceasefire. Paul and his friends go on a mission to find 60 missing recruits sent to
reinforce their unit and discover that they were killed by gas after taking off their masks too
soon.
On November 10, Supreme Allied Commander gave the Germans 72 hours to accept the
non-negotiable Allied terms. Finally, Erzberger’s delegation signs an armistice set to take
effect at 11:00 AM but the Army wants to end the war with a victory, so they order an attack
to start at 10:45 AM.
In the end, many of the German soldiers died and they will never come back home.

I strongly recommend All Quiet at the Western Front. It has action, blood, sweat, tears and
an important message: war is anything but an adventure. There are two previous movies
before this one, both with the same name. The first one was released in 1930 and the other
in 1979.