ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Official Trailer (2022)

First movie trailer for All Quiet on the Western Front by Netflix.

[CanadaSims]

That book changed me forever. Can not even begin to comprehend what these people went through. Something that stuck with me was how the soldiers would no longer even attempt to socialize with each other because they knew that it was likely that any friends they made would be killed. That sense of isolation, loneliness and hopelessness must have felt so intense.

[giovaninesi]

"This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death
is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation
of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war." Simply put, one of the greatest books about war that I´ve ever read.

[chatnoir]

I am russian. I read "All Quiet..." when I was teenager and reread it multiple times. One of the reason I never felt for kremlin war propaganda and despise current war.

[MegaNOObxX]

Finally WW1 gets some much needed attention. I feel like this war gets glossed over sometimes and people really downplay how horrible it really was because of the atrocities that occurred during WW2 which is such a shame. This war truly shaped the world we know today. Much respect to those who lost their lives during both World Wars. Super excited to see this movie and I definitely need to read this book.

[takaorobinson]

I came across this book at a thrift store and the writing blew me away. Do descriptive, the imagery. A very artistic way describing the searchlights crossing the dark sky in search of a plane. How poisonous gas would sit in the shell holes like a waiting ghost. Fighting off the rats trying to eat your bread. Raiding the French lines to loot food and drinks. The teacher that prodded them into this and how funny it was when the teacher gets called up. Very few books have touched and amazed me by the writing style. This is one of them and another was The Lieutenant by L Ron Hubbard.

[leowillaime]

My great grandfather was a french soldier who survived it all. He always refused to speak to it, especially to his wife and children. He said only thing : the mud was cold. He lost his brother of law in 1915, killed in Champagne.

My other french great grand father suffer from heavy shellshock and would often walked in his former trenches (he lived near Verdun) when drunk. He just sat there, waiting. People knew where to look to find him. He said germans where not the ennemy. He said he and germans soldiers where both poor fools. But he had a deep hate for german leadership.

[B_B]

My great-great-grandfather fought in the Imperial army on the western front. It will be interesting to finally see a WWI movie which is somewhat according to 'his perspective'. In Verdun when he was ordered to charge into no man's land he and his unit were all mowed down, and so he was severely wounded in his jowl area. What happened was that his buddy was running to the left of him and suddenly dropped (got shot and died), so my ancestor turned his head to the left and luckily was hit to the right side of his face. If he didn't turn his head then he would've been shot through the chin/throat, and if that happened then I wouldn't be writing this comment. He passed out and was retrieved and brought back to the trench the next day by other survivors.

[lucas]

The book should be mandatory reading material in high schools around the world. Most impressive anti-war book ever written in my opinion.

[concornerdoesthings]

I remember watching the origional 1930's all quiet on the western front, probably my favorite movie of all time just because of how accurate it was historically.

[TallTree_Productions]

had the chance to watch this at TIFF, and it was absolutely fantastic. Visually gripping, and has an amazing score. Every aspect of the film was 10/10. Can't wait for everyone to see this when it releases.

[garykubodera]

I read this book in high school in the mid 80's and did not think too much of it at the time. Then shortly before the 1st Gulf War?, I joined the US Army as a combat medic and then a Pharmacy Specialist and retired shortly after the 1st Gulf War and then worked at a VA outpatient clinic for a couple of years.
I have seen far too much and now have a much better understanding of the horrors of combat and war that it has on one's own soul.. Now I have 2 boys 12 and 17yrs and based on what I know, I hope and pray they never have to see and go through what I and the men and women I served with..some I'm still haunted by what I saw and experienced even today... I hope and pray every day... A disabled US Army Veteran

[Elma]

“To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he buries his face and his limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shell-fire, then she is his only friend, his brother, his mother; he stifles his terror and his cries in her silence and her security; she shelters him and releases him for ten seconds to live, to run, ten seconds of life; receives him again and often forever.”

[ryaandnice]

I still remember this novel, in vivid detail, 30 years later. It was one of the steps into adulthood. I was blessed with a public school literature teacher that cared, and pushed us to take reading the book seriously.
Changed the way I view and think about war my entire life!

[martyk]

My grandfather (mother's side) fought during WW1. As a little girl growing up through WW2 in Germany my mother asked her father on a few occasions what it was like.
She was answered with eyes full of tears and silence

[peterp]

Its been done twice before, once as a movie and once as a TV miniseries in the late 1970's or early 1980's. Both were good and faithful to the book. The movie was released in 1931 and starred Lew Ayers (who later played Dr. Kildare in a late 1930's movie serial starring opposite Lionel Barrymore as his mentor). Despite the lack of modern day CGI, the movie mimics WWI trench warfare and was probably very close to an actual depiction of the conflict because it was released 13 years after the war's end and still fresh in the minds of its survivors. The sounds of the artillery shells dropping in the 1931 movie are more realistic than the sound in the trailer. From printed accounts of those who fought, artillery shells typically had a whistling/buzzing sound intentionally created to create fear in those being shelled. Also, the most compelling scene in the movie was when the protagonist, whose name escapes me, takes refuge in an artillery shell crater, during an artillery barrage, and stabs a French soldier who jumped into the same crater for the same reason. He is stuck there thru the night watching the Frenchman slowly bleed to death and pleading for forgiveness for killing him. That scene personalizes war for its reality. The black and white film quality, lack of a musical soundtrack and long pauses between dialogue also add to the reality as it gives the movie a documentary feel.

The TV mini-series was also good because of better production values and because the additional days to tell the story allowed for more detail than a 2 hour movie would permit.

[georgebernard]

My grandfather, Andre Victor Bernard, was a French soldier and survivor of all four years on the Western Front, he would not speak of the war. His brother Georges (my icon pic) died on the Marne in 1914.

[jeffreyabelson]

I read the book 45 years ago - saw the trailer and it all came back and I decided to read the book again except now, reading as a grown man with nephews and friends with young sons, I'm horrified, whereas as a teen I was fascinated

[heatherporterfield]

The book was required reading in a english class I had in high school. It made one think of the reality of war. The only copy of the movie I own, is the 1978 version. It will be great to see this new version where the actors speak German.

[notbadforanoob]

If you read WW1 poetry, you will notice that most of the British poetry had a theme of returning home, a theme of hope, wishing the war were over. The German soldiers were writing about despair, about the end of the world, about the void, and masked horsemen carrying necklaces of skulls. There wasn't a shred of hope on the German side.

[Frosty_tha_Snowman]

This is how you do a trailer. You don't spoil anything, you show the cinematic quality of it, and you don't fill it with senseless dialog.