LOS ANGELES, March 12 (Reuters) – Germany’s “All Quiet on the Western Entrance,” a World Warfare One epic with 9 Oscar nominations this yr, received the Academy Award for finest worldwide movie on Sunday.
The Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) movie, directed by Edward Berger, depicts the horrors of trench warfare by means of the eyes of a younger man initially eager to hitch the struggle. It’s the first German-language adaptation of a 1928 novel by Erich Maria Remarque, which was additionally made right into a finest picture-winning movie in 1930.
“All Quiet on the Western Entrance” tells a narrative of a younger man who, poisoned by right-wing political nationalist propaganda, goes to warfare pondering it is an journey, and warfare is something however an journey,” producer Malte Grunert stated in his acceptance speech for finest movie on the BAFTA awards final month.
The movie “is in fascinating dialogue with not simply its supply materials, however the lengthy historical past of warfare and cinema about warfare and atrocities,” Sight & Sound wrote in its overview, saying the movie additionally owed a debt to movies like “1917,” “Saving Non-public Ryan” and “Black Hawk Down.”
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The movie was nominated in 9 classes this yr, together with finest image. Solely “All the things All over the place All at As soon as,” with 11 nods, had extra.
“All Quiet on the Western Entrance” beat out worldwide movie nominees “EO” from Poland, “The Quiet Woman,” from Eire; Belgian movie “Shut;” and “Argentina, 1985” from Argentina.
(Writing by Nick Zieminski; Modifying by Jonathan Oatis)
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