All Quiet on the Western Front

noun

1. a novel (1929) by Erich Maria Remarque.

All Quiet on the Western Front

1. (1929) A German novel by Erich Maria Remarque about the horrors and futility of World War I.

A film adaptation of the novel appeared in 1930. Widely considered the first major antiwar motion picture of the modern era, it won the Academy Award for best picture. A television adaptation of the film aired in 1979.

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The first two, “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “Conclave” earned 17 Oscar nominations between them, including best picture nods for both.

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With “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “Conclave,” Berger showed himself to be a canny crowdpleaser, capable of jumping genres and drawing out fine work from his leads.

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In 1930, the Nazi Party chief in Thuringia and state Minister of Education and the Interior, Wilhelm Frick, issued orders to remove 70 Expressionist paintings from the Schloss Weimar museum, fire the director of another museum for displaying modern art in its exhibitions, and ban all pacifist or antiwar books and films, including Erich Maria Remarque’s legendary World War I novel “All Quiet on the Western Front.”

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Emerson told BBC News that he and Edward Berger - the acclaimed German-Austrian film-maker whose 2022 adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front was nominated for nine Academy Awards - aspired to make something that would replicate the 70s thrillers they grew up on.

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On a conference call with his leading man, Ralph Fiennes, in between awards-season events such as the AFI Awards luncheon and a feting at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, the director is tracing the origins of “Conclave,” the follow-up to his 2022 “All Quiet on the Western Front” adaptation, which won four Oscars.

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