I literally have the last page of the book saved on my phone. It's so gripping.

Which is quite ironic. The English version is so much more chilling. The original book in German would be : He died in October 1918, on a day that was so calm and quiet all along the front that the army report was limited to the sentence that there was nothing new to report in the West. The Book was called : Im Westen nichts Neues (nothing new in the west) That’s a case where the translation actually made it better

@@mondexponent2126 more chilling yes, but the authenticity is in the German version

@@GamingEntertainment12 absolutely. Sheer, depressed resignation.

Damn..

That’s a lot of wins!

@@TBRSchmitt it is not only the fourth GERMAN movie in history to have WON the oscar for Best International Feature Film (previously Best Foreign Feature Length Film) (after The Tin Drum, Nowhere in Africa, The Lives of Others) but also i believe it is the highest decorated german movie and the german movie with the most oscar nominations too.

The score made this film! So good!

ALSO crazy to know that this was Felix Kammerer's (Pual) FIRST big movie and second movie overall! he had only done a random TV movie here in germany before starring in this masterpiece.

@@TBRSchmitt Another great anti war movie from the german perspective (in WW2) is the Movie called "Die Brücke" from 1959. If you get your hands on it, it is realy worth it. Same thing with "Stalingrad" from 1993 and "Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter" (Generation War) from 2013.

...and then Paul losing the letter and not surviving the war. There is no quest, there is no purpose or meaning. Just death.

Read the book, it is excellent and is quite different from the film.

@@DAS_k1ishEe if this was a modern American film there would be some epilogue with an old guy in a graveyard so us the audience could walk out of the film feeling like it was all worth it

@@antonego9581 Ahh, but this is a German war film. Everybody MUST die.

i agree

So much deserved the Oscar

that’s crazy, I imagine a lot of post processing was applied but it’s funny seeing as the harmonium has jokingly been referred to as the mechanical synth

Yep. Back in 2014 when Russia first invaded Ukraine, Vice News had a guy doing daily reports there. They showed a body (probably Ukranian) who had been blown up onto a powerline. It was not a pretty sight.

​@@juvandyyeah there are a lot of photos now coming from ukraine too of bodies in trees and on top of buildings, and some tree lines and forrests have now been turned to the trench landscapes in this movie like there was so many fires and artillery fire that entire forrests are gone and the landscape is permanently changed... btw France and Belgium still have a line where you can't grow crops bc there are so many chemicals in the ground from WW1 and so many grenades and artillery rounds, guns and bodies but WW2 littered europe also under bombs, bodies and basically anything that was used but contrary to WW1 those lands are still usable

IIRC They also still find tunnels filled with explosives occasionally. @@henkschrader4513

Artillery is hell of a thing

I remember seeing a really similar photo In a ww2 book for kids in my school library it scarred me I seem to remember it said "german soldier hit by friendly fire from minenwerfer 42" ofc my brain could be making that up

No

Ww2 is more bro

You are repeating a myth. Soldiers used skirmisher tactics. They spread out and advanced while covering each other. Soldiers were not grouped up into dense columns or lines and made to slowly advance to enemy positions and wait until the distance was about 80metres before opening fire. Linear tactics of the previous eras were not used. The problem was that commanders didn't have an answer to trench warfare. They tried many ways to break the deadlock. Long bombardments that often lasted days, weeks even, poison gas, tanks, aircraft, flamethrowers...

Ww2 would not have happened without ww1 one of the main reasons that Hitler was so popular amongst the Germans is because ww1 devastated Germany and the German people believed Hitler could help there country @@LucasEaFC1991

@@LucasEaFC1991 More casualties yes, because of the advanced technology, but the war alone for soldiers, WW1 is more horrific

Definitely…

The original is more sadder in my opinion

​@@Anakinskywalkerfan1Yes I agree, tragedy in irony.

​@TBRSchmitt If you like "Train to Busan", than you should see "Okay! Madam"

I cannot distinct these war movies 🎥 apart!

Right after "Come and see"

In my native language of french (Pretty sure in german too), it’s « On the west, nothing new », hits hard

Or shows the brainwashing / modern slavery of troops in ww1 especially. And how this was only 100 years ago

The 1930 version is my favorite. It is closer to the novel. It was the original anti war movie.

everyone learn from this movie whats this phatom pain.

The 70s version is inferior, it looks too much like a TV production, and the actors and storytelling don't reach the level of the first movie.

I watch the 70s version first and I really liked it. It's free on KZfaq movies right now.

Definitely going to avoid watching this remake. Hollywood turned it into another war/slasher film by the looks of it. The 30's version is by far the best. The 70's made for tv is good to, ain't no cgi in those battle scenes.

​@@banzi403in this movie they also barely used CGI all the explosions where actual explosions wich is crazy to think about

@@henkschrader4513 that really doesn't change my mind about the film. Still sounds like hollywood turned it in to a slasher film.

Those should be published!

For sure. And sadly people will think that this movie from 2022 was the first one... The British tv version was great as well.

Music definitely gives a sci-fi vibe!

Like Tenet and Interstellar, I couldn't get it out of my mind.🙃

Great reaction video TBRSchmitt and Sam this movie will stay with you after you watch it and the music is great

the music was brill, loved it

this one is so much worse than the movie from the 1930s. But yes, it is better than the one from the 1970s

I think the 1930 version gave more to character development, especially in having Paul, as with the book, return home on leave. He berated his jingoistic teacher, felt his alienation from his mom, and found the know at all civilians out of touch and insufferable. But the 1930 cast, as good as they were, still came across like Americans of the period. This German film is a good addition.

@@Hume77 Also to think that the movie came out just a decade after the real events is just mind blowing and add coolness to it all.

I liked the 1970 one and apparently it's the worst but I think it does the french soldier scene the best

That is a fine statement, and I am pleased that the youth of Germany today are so much wiser. It is pleasing that films and works illustrating the mistakes of the past are taught to German children at an early age. Let us both hope and pray that these mistakes are never repeated again. My great grandfather served in WW1 for the 4th Battalion Territorial Regiment of The Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI), and was involved in many battles. He would never let WW1 be referred to as a war, because as he said wars are fought by civilised men with terms of engagement. Rather he called WW1 the most stupid mass slaughter of good fine men on both sides. As a young boy I knew many of the WW1 veterans as they came together every Sunday at the British Legion Club, and I would normally be taken along. I would hear the many viewpoints from men that actually fought in WW1, and what I can say is that there was a lot of respect for the German soldiers despite them being so called enemies. Did you know for example, that captured German soldiers at Passchendaele near Ypres in WW1 rather than sit doing nothing would have their helmets painted white or red and volunteer to work as stretcher bearers bringing in allied wounded men? My great grandfather told me. Good men, only put against ourselves by a senseless, stupid, wasteful, barbaric war. There were a good many things that my great grandfather disagreed with regarding the end of WW1. First he always thought that it had been a mistake not to march the entire allied armies into Germany. This was because later it was often stated that nobody had won the war and that the armistice was in effect a draw. Fact was that at the point of signing the armistice Germany was almost on her knees in terms of economic, industrial, and domestic strengths and was wholly unable to continue fighting the war. WW1 blockades had caused chaos, with a good majority of the German people almost starving due to food shortages, with people living on turnips. Political unrest and instability in the country was rife, and the Americans entry into the war was the final nail in the coffin. Yes, this might have been hard for the German people to accept, but in the longer term an allied occupation might have resulted in better stability and quelled the alternating balance between war and peace plus the rise of the Nazi Party with a leader who was fundamentally disgruntled about the outcome of WW1. Second, he thought that the Kaiser should not have been allowed to get off the hook so easily, and be accountable for the carnage and decimation that had been caused. Third, he thought that the terms of the Versailles Treaty had been too hard on Germany, and that Germany needed assistance from the allies to rebuild herself into a better society rather than a waring militaristic nation. Fourth, he asserted that the armistice was only a 20 year peace. He was out only by about 40 days. As for Remarque who wrote All Quiet on The Western Front, he fled Germany to the USA on the rise of the Nazi Party. Only Goebbels retained one copy of the film of the same title made in 1936 that won an Oscar for its performances. Remarque's sister, who did not manage to flee the country, was had up at a Nazi kangaroo court which sentenced her to death in her brothers absence.

Seems like Oscar gold!

I remember the 1979 version

Also, but I kind prefer the finally of that one. Don't know if it is more faithful to the book or this one is. @@utcnc7mm

If you watch a "foreign" movie with a dubbing, you have reserved a special place in hell.

deutsch ist alt die beste Sprache und ich brauche keine Untertitel lesen, sondern kann mich auf den Film konzentrieren 😁😁

Which version do you prefer!?

I really loved the original, but the remake was super underwhelming for me. From a technical aspect, it was great, but I wasn't as attached to any of the characters in the same way the 1930 film portrayed them. On top of that, the 2022 film cut my personal favorite scene of the whole story - the one where Paul goes back to his professor while on leave, and tells the teacher off for indoctrinating innocent children into a hellish nightmare.

​@TBRSchmitt I love the original. Also, check out the 1979 version as well.

with John boy Walton! @@stsolomon618

@@TBRSchmitt I prefer the 1930 version because it’s more faithful to the novel and Paul’s character is better developed, not to mention he was portrayed by one of my favorite old Hollywood actors, Lew Ayres.

Thank you! Same to you!

excellent movie

But make sure to watch the 50smovie, not the crap they did in the 2000s

50s movie?@@mappes1

yes. the most important scene missing in the movie. To contrast the speech about Kaiser, God and Fatherland in the beginning