All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front

Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.

  • Released: 2022-10-07
  • Runtime: 147 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Drama, War
  • Stars: Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer, Edin Hasanović, Devid Striesow, Daniel Brühl, Moritz Klaus, Sebastian Hülk, Anton von Lucke, Michael Wittenborn, Luc Feit, Andreas Döhler, André Marcon, Tobias Langhoff, Adrian Grünewald, Thibault de Montalembert, Nico Ehrenteit, Wolf Danny Homann, Charles Morillon, Jakob Schmidt, Peter Sikorski, Sascha Nathan, Alexander Schuster, Michael Stange, Joe Weintraub, Daniel Kamen, Markus Tomczyk, Dominikus Weileder, Michael Pitthan
  • Director: Edward Berger
 Comments
  • gaymoviesobber - 28 May 2024
    Breath-taking and intense
    When I sat down to watch All Quiet On The Western Front, I knew there was going to be death. I knew it was going to be miserable and I knew that I would come out with at least a vague sense of 'thank the bloody lord I wasn't alive during WWI'. But, what I didn't know was just how intense it would be. I could barely tear my eyes away from the screen, even on the particularly gory parts (and let me tell you I am SQUEAMISH).

    One thing that stood out to me was the juxtaposition between the scenes featuring the soldiers on the battlefield, and then the scenes with the major leaders sitting in their pretty little mansions or on that fancy train. We'd see the characters we've been following for a while getting massacred by God knows what, and then it would cut to a bunch a rich men 'um'ing and 'ah'ing about whether to end the war even though with every second that passes more and more people with their own families and aspirations either have their lives ended or ruined more and more. Jeez, guys, not to be too political here, but we really need to stop having wars.

    I also REALLY loved the camerawork. Each shot was crafted in a way to make even the most uptight person feel tense, or elated, or irrate with anger or choked up with tears. I've genuinely got some scenes seared into my memory because they were both so emotionally driven and artistic.

    The only real criticism I have is that the pacing was a bit shaky and confusing at times.
  • undeff - 2 March 2024
    do not get ptsd
    If you imagined yourself as Tony Stark watching Iron Man, do not watch this movie. You will get PTSD. I could not sleep. But if you want to understand what really war looks like, do it. This is the most realistic war movie I have ever seen, it can be more realistic only with smelovision to give you a smell of dead human flesh. Especially scene SPOILER ALERT!!! With knife killing. Ok, I need more characters. I'm not a movie critic. But this was the most traumatic experience I got, I have to say that I'm interested in history and I have read a lot about both world wars before. But my head was messed up after this movie.