The official trailer for Netflix's All Quiet on the Western Front remake has arrived, and the two-minute spot is paralyzing with an intense depiction of World War I combat. All Quiet on the Western Front was a globally acclaimed novel authored by Erich Maria Remarque and published in 1929. The story follows Paul Bäumer, a young soldier in the Imperial German Army facing with the horrors of trench warfare while led by incompetent battlefield leaders. All Quiet on the Western Front was first adapted for the screen in 1930, and again in 1979 as a TV movie. The modern adaptation arrives on Netflix on October 28, 2022.
In All Quiet on the Western Front, Paul (Felix Kammerer) enlists in the military with the illusion that war will be a rewarding experience, but is swiftly met with the traumatic reality of World War I combat. The story is gruesome in detail, and firm in it's anti-war message. German director Edward Berger is at the helm for the epic retelling, and he penned the script with help from Lesley Paterson and Ian Stockel. The first All Quiet on the Western Front teaser trailer explained that like the original film adaptation, Netflix's 21st century remake will be presented in German and subtitled in English.
All Quiet on the Western Front is complete with inescapable barbed-wire, rats harassing both the living and dead, and the modernization of battlefield attacks using tanks, automatic weapons and flame throwers. The film stars Daniel Brühl, a multilingual actor who starred as German-speaking character Frederick Zoller in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, and the trailer reveals that Brühl plays a diplomatic envoy communicating with military brass during the conflict. Watch Netflix's official trailer for All Quiet on the Western Front above.
All Quiet On The Western Front Continues A Recent Trend In Film
World War I was a complex global conflict, and the forces involved are not nearly as widely understood as World War II. Hollywood has recently begun to lean into big budget, stunt-heavy projects about World War I's soldiers, battles, and causes with award winners like 1917 and Peaky Blinders leading the pack. Stories set during World War I do educate the audience about the past, but they can also be a vessel for understanding the present and future. Acclaimed Marvel director Patty Jenkins elected to set Wonder Woman during World War I because she believes today's tense global stage mirrors those circumstances.
First look images from the All Quiet on the Western Front set reveal the sober faces of soldiers in a battle that few can hope to survive, or going over the top and traversing the fatal landscape of no man's land. The original film earned the Oscar for Best Picture in 1930, and is ed as one of the masterpieces of its time. The recently arrived trailer for All Quiet on the Western Front appears to match the source material and flagship film's brutalism.
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