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Wednesday, 11 January 2023

All Quiet on the Western Front: A Netflix adaptation of the anti-war classic novel

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Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front adaptation does Erich Maria Remarque's classic anti-war novel justice. The movie, which is the the first German-language adaptation of the book opens with a young soldier, Heinrich Gerber, being killed in the trenches; his uniform is returned to Germany and is washed and repaired to be reused. In a later scene, actor Felix Kammerer in his first screen role plays Paul, a German teenage boy who enthusiastically enlists with his friends along with his friends in 1917 towards the end World War I. The boys clutch their new uniforms eager to march into Paris, the exhilaration cut short when Paul discovers a name tag left in the collar of his uniform: Heinrich Gerber. The boys are in for a rude awakening when they arrive in Paris to discover chaos and gore the harsh realities of war.

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