All Quiet on the Western Front

This film has instantly become one of my all-time favorites. While based on a literary classic, All Quiet on the Western Front is not your “classic” war film. It has more in common with HBO’s Chernobyl, than 1917. There is no hero’s journey. The film immerses you into the gritty and hopeless nightmare (that was the German Western front) in WW1.

The movie is based on the book, Im Westen nichts Neues, by author Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book is a fictional accounting of the German…