All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
(Im Westen nichts Neues)
Country: GER/US/GB
Technical: col/2.39:1 148m
Director: Edward Berger
Cast: Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Daniel Brühl, Thibault de Montalembert
Synopsis:
Having joined up in the autumn of 1917, Paul Bäumer and his classmates soon experience their first taste of action in the trenches and their lives revolve around a few fleeting pleasures. Meanwhile, the German minister attempts to salvage his nation's face, and the fate of its manhood, at Compiègne.
Review:
This new adapted screenplay eschews the clichés of training and gradual disillusionment by commencing with the demise of a different 'Paul' and concentrating the bulk of the action into the last month of the war. The disjointed industrial score by Volker Bertelmann convulses in counterpoint with the images, and the director and cinematographer score many a bullseye in this ever-relevant story of old men playing war-games with their nation's youth.
(Im Westen nichts Neues)
Country: GER/US/GB
Technical: col/2.39:1 148m
Director: Edward Berger
Cast: Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Daniel Brühl, Thibault de Montalembert
Synopsis:
Having joined up in the autumn of 1917, Paul Bäumer and his classmates soon experience their first taste of action in the trenches and their lives revolve around a few fleeting pleasures. Meanwhile, the German minister attempts to salvage his nation's face, and the fate of its manhood, at Compiègne.
Review:
This new adapted screenplay eschews the clichés of training and gradual disillusionment by commencing with the demise of a different 'Paul' and concentrating the bulk of the action into the last month of the war. The disjointed industrial score by Volker Bertelmann convulses in counterpoint with the images, and the director and cinematographer score many a bullseye in this ever-relevant story of old men playing war-games with their nation's youth.
(Im Westen nichts Neues)
Country: GER/US/GB
Technical: col/2.39:1 148m
Director: Edward Berger
Cast: Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Daniel Brühl, Thibault de Montalembert
Synopsis:
Having joined up in the autumn of 1917, Paul Bäumer and his classmates soon experience their first taste of action in the trenches and their lives revolve around a few fleeting pleasures. Meanwhile, the German minister attempts to salvage his nation's face, and the fate of its manhood, at Compiègne.
Review:
This new adapted screenplay eschews the clichés of training and gradual disillusionment by commencing with the demise of a different 'Paul' and concentrating the bulk of the action into the last month of the war. The disjointed industrial score by Volker Bertelmann convulses in counterpoint with the images, and the director and cinematographer score many a bullseye in this ever-relevant story of old men playing war-games with their nation's youth.