![]() ![]() Thirty per cent of Netflix’s content has to be from the EU in order for it to operate there. “148 minutes of blockbuster-compatible war kitsch is being slapped with a title that is internationally known and guarantees prestige and good sales. Süddeutsche suggested the film was above all a piece of “clever marketing” for a streaming platform eager to convert film prizes into new subscriptions. The film’s protagonist, played by the Austrian actor Felix Kammerer, by contrast, dies in a noisy, action-filled close-combat scene. “He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: all quiet on the western front.” In keeping with its unsentimental narrative style, the novel ends on a laconic epilogue noting the narrator Paul Bäumer’s passing. ![]() ![]() With new subplots, absent central characters and added backstories, Süddeutsche’s critic Hubert Wetzel wrote, “you have to ask yourself whether director Berger has even read Remarque’s novel”.Įven the film’s title had lost its meaning, the newspaper complained. ![]() Yet Berger’s film, the same Munich-based broadsheet wrote, showed that “no book is so good that you can’t turn it into a terrible film”. Photograph: John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images ![]()
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