All Quiet On The Western Front

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	Felix Kammerer	Paul Bäumer
	Albrecht Schuch	Stanislaus Katczinsky
	Aaron Hilmer	Albert Kropp
	Moritz Klaus	Franz Müller
	Adrian Grünewald	Ludwig Behm
	Edin Hasanovic	Tjaden Stackfleet
	Daniel Brühl	Matthias Erzberger
	Thibault De Montalembert	General Ferdinand Foch
	Devid Striesow	General Friedrichs
	Andreas Döhler	Leutnant Hoppe
	Sebastian Hülk	Major Von Brixdorf
	Luc Feit	Stabsarzt
	Michael Wittenborn	Rektor
	Michael Stange	Musterungsoffizier
	Sascha Nathan	Graf Von Oberndorff
	Tobias Langhoff	Generalmajor Von Winterfeldt
	Anton von Lucke	Hauptmann Von Helldorf
	Michael Pitthan	Kapitän Ernst Von Vanselow
	Joe Weintraub	Hauptmann Geyer
	Charles Morillon	Capitaine Paul Lepèrche
	Gabriel Dufay	Generalmajor Maxime Weygand
	Dan Brown	Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss
	Philipp Schenker	Admiral George Hope
	Cyril Dobry	Butler General Foch
	Sebastian Jacques	Butler

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Director	Edward Berger
Writer	Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell, Erich Maria Remarque
Producer	Edward Berger, Daniel Brühl, Daniel Marc Dreifuss, Malte Grunert, Pavel Muller, Mark Nolting, Lesley Paterson, Thorsten Schumacher, Ian Stokell
Musician	Volker Bertelmann
Photography	James Friend

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My quick rating - 7.6/10. Time to get to this year's Oscar nominations for best picture. I have already reviewed Top Gun, so that leaves 9 more to get to reviewing (8 more to watch). It isn't an easy task to make you feel actually empathetic towards German soldiers, but this movie does about as good a job at that as can be possible. Director Edward Berger is able to capture what I would think is a very real transition from being patriotic for the cause of fighting for your country to the horrifying reality that war is hell, no matter whose side you are on. Even though this is a remake that I cannot compare to, on its own, it is still a stark anti-war movie, and the original story is still a first of its kind. I am sure I lost plenty in dubbing, especially from the acting standpoint, but it was still quite powerful. Seeing the way war is in a non-glamorized fashion also helps with the realism. The soldiers here have to walk to get to the battles, and walk to wherever there may be food and shelter, etc. There aren't vehicles dragging them from place to place as we think of it now. A good portion of this movie is the things you see before hitting the front lines. Training, walking, and stealing food were all part of leading up to the nightmares of the trench warfare that was upcoming. Then we are taken straight into a style of combat where just poking your head up gets it shot square. Everything looks accurate to someone who is not a WWI buff by any means, so I am sure historians can make far better assessments of that aspect, but it sure looked solid. Scenes at times were scaled out to show the expanse of the lines in the field of battle spanning for miles, and just two sides gunning at each other. Back then, running across a single tank was a spectacle of fear for the soldiers to overcome. There are a couple of truly memorable scenes in this one, and being spoiler-free, I won't go further, but ONE in particular is such a haunting reality of war. That enemy vs enemy when you don't even know why you are fighting. That scene is captured so well and sticks out as one major highlight in a flick that is definitely deserving of the Oscar nomination. I'll leave it at that since I like to keep it short, and far better expertise can give you even greater insight into the realism of this flick if you search it out.

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