sponsored by allquietmovie | The Netflix adaptation of the 1929 novel by Erich Maria Remarque, directed by Edward Berger and starring Felix Kammerer, puts the audience in a young soldier’s boots to offer Germany’s perspective of World War I.
Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” already boasts an immortal and definitive cinematic legacy in the form of Lewis Milestone’s 92-year-old Hollywood adaptation, but the World War I epic had never been told on the screen in its native language until now. Director Edward Berger’s bold vision of the tale comes at a time when Remarque’s anti-war treatise rings truer than ever.
“I find it interesting if you touch a holy material, such as this book, and do something new with it. We add some very interesting historical and political context,” Brühl says. “I’m proud of the power, the energy, that Felix [Kammerer] and all the actors in the trenches and Edward put into this.” “When you read the novel, the language is fascinating because it somehow gives a very physical and visceral experience, and yet, it’s almost written like a journalist,” Berger says. “It’s sort of in a laconic tone — not emotional. It lets you interpret the emotion into it, and we wanted to try to capture the same, putting you in his shoes but also staying slightly back and being observant.”
“To prepare, I ran 10 kilometers three times a week, wearing a 10 kilo vest, because I was already thinking that the movie shoot would be strenuous,” Kammerer says. “I absolutely wanted to build up my condition, and it really helped. Although, it turned out, in the driving rain after the first week of filming, that 10 kilos was rather optimistic!”
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