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• All quiet on the western front movie#

The film rights were snatched up by Universal Pictures for a record $40,000 and the motion picture went into production immediately.Īll Quiet on the Western Front is, as most American high school students know, the story of a company of volunteer German soldiers stationed behind the front lines in the last weeks of World War I. Abroad, All Quiet on the Western Front was a big hit as well, selling 600,000 copies in both Britain and France, and 200,000 in America. In Germany, the initial print run sold out on release day, and some 20,000 copies moved off the shelves in the first few weeks on its way to more than a million books sold by year’s end.

All quiet on the western front movie#

A somewhat shocking turn of events, considering the movie was the highly anticipated adaptation of countryman Erich Maria Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front, the blockbuster novel that had transfixed the nation months earlier.įirst serialized in 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung he, the book was published on January 31, 1929, and instantly became a literary juggernaut. Spewing anti-Semitic invective at the screen, they repeatedly shouted “Judenfilm!” as they tossed stink bombs from the balcony, threw sneezing powder in the air, and released white mice into the theater. But during the movie, a cadre of 150 Nazi Brownshirts, nearly all too young to have fought in World War I, were led into the theater by propagandist Joseph Goebbels. "Some of the more recent films have been more about the storytelling than the events."Īpparently, those who have seen the trailer couldn't agree more.On December 5, 1930, just over 12 years after the end of World War I, German moviegoers flocked to Berlin’s Mozart Hall to see one of Hollywood’s latest films. "Being a WWI historian, it is the accuracy that I most care about," added Cart. However, on YouTube and other social platforms where the trailer has been widely shared, the comments have been largely positive. The trailer may not have made that latter part clear – and it is unknown if Netflix will offer a dubbed version.

Moreover, unlike the 1930 film starring Lew Ayres – which went on to be the first film to win the Academy Awards for both Outstanding Production (Best Picture) and Best Director – or the 1979 made-for-TV version starring Richard Thomas, this one is also in German. The story of All Quiet on the Western Front may lack the gimmicks found in 1917, but it is also presented from a German perspective. "What the viewer needs to remember is that this was an anti-war novel, but Remarque was a German soldier who actually fought in the war, and a lot of what he saw is what he wrote about." "As long as it is done well, and keeps to the novel it should be well-received by the audience," Cart continued. "This is different as it is a timeless story," explained Doran Cart, senior curator at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri.Ĭart added that the museum did publish an illustrated version of the novel in 1996, and has a long connection with Remarque's novel. The First World War has largely failed to connect with audiences, and apart from Sam Mendes' 1917, most of the films released about the conflict in recent years have come and gone with little notice.Īll Quiet on the Western Front may connect with audiences, however.

The fact that the film's trailer has racked up the eyeballs so quickly is actually somewhat noteworthy. 12, and it will debut on Netflix on October 28. The film will have its worldwide premiere at the 2022 Toronto Film Festival on Sept. Germany has already selected All Quiet on the Western Front to represent the country in the 2023 Oscar race in the best international feature category. "We now have the chance to make an anti-war film that will truly touch our audience," Berger added. "It is a physical, visceral, and very modern film that has never been told from my country’s perspective - it has never been made into a German-language film," director Edward Berger ( Deutschland '83 and Patrick Melrose) told The Hollywood Reporter when the film was first announced.