History Film / AllQuietOnTheWesternFront2022

* HateSink: General Friedrichs, the TheNeidermeyer GeneralRipper who represents everything wrong with the Prussian Junkers attitude. He has absolutely ''zero'' redeeming qualities, acting as if moving pieces on a board of a game, resenting the mere concept of peace and wanting to fight for as long as possible - and preferably forever. In the very end, he sends his own men into a completely pointless assault, ''minutes'' before armistice, just so they can "die with their honour intact", with anyone protesting being rounded up and executed as deserters on his authority. All while he's simply sitting in a chateau close to the frontlines.

* HateSink: General Friedrichs

* AllForNothing: Paul volunteers in hopes of becoming a hero when the war is over, [[spoiler:but in the end, Paul dies, and his dogtag is not even taken after his corpse is found, leaving his sacrifice in vain.]]

The film is set in 1917-1918 during the last year and a half of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer) is a 17-year-old schoolboy who, along with his buddies Albert Kropp (Aaron Hilmer), Franz Müller (Moritz Klaus), and Ludwig Behm (Adrian Grünewald), volunteer for the UsefulNotes/{{Imperial German|y}} [[UsefulNotes/PrussiansInPickelhauben Army]] after getting a patriotic talk from their teacher. They do not know that the army uniforms they are receiving have been taken from corpses.

* ExternallyValidatedProphecy: During the negotiations with the French, Matthias Erzberger warns the French delegation that the terms imposed on Germany will lead to famine and anarchy with the general population and requests for more merciful terms that will not cause resentment amongst the populace. The French delegation does not listen and forces them to sign the peace agreement, setting the stage for the post-war conditions in Germany that led to the Nazis' rise.

''All Quiet on the Western Front'' (''Im Westen nichts Neues'', literally "Nothing New in the West") is a 2022 war film from UsefulNotes/{{Germany}} directed by Edward Berger. It is the first ever German-language film adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's iconic 1929 novel, ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront''. There were two versions prior to it, a [[Film/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront1930 1930 theatrical film]] and a 1979 TV film.

* CloseOnTitle: The movie title is shown at the start of he closing credits.

The film received 9 nominations at the 95th UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, and won four including [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestForeignLanguageFilm Best International Feature Film]], [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestCinematography Best Cinematography]], [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestOriginalScore Best Original Score]] and [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestProductionDesign Best Production Design]], becoming the joint fourth most-awarded foreign-language film to achieve this feat after ''Film/FannyAndAlexander'', ''Film/CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon'' and ''Film/{{Parasite}}''.

* InTheBack: [[spoiler:Paul dies getting stabbed from behind by a Frnech soldier with a bayonet]].

The film is set in 1917-18 and the last year and a half of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer) is a 17-year-old schoolboy who, along with his buddies Albert Kropp (Aaron Hilmer), Franz Müller (Moritz Klaus), and Ludwig Behm (Adrian Grünewald), volunteer for the UsefulNotes/{{Imperial German|y}} [[UsefulNotes/PrussiansInPickelhauben Army]] after getting a patriotic talk from their teacher. They do not know that the army uniforms they are receiving have been taken from corpses.

The film received 9 nominations at the 95th UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, and won four including Best International Feature, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score and Best Production Design, becoming the joint fourth most-awarded foreign-language film to achieve this feat after ''Film/FannyAndAlexander'', ''Film/CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon'' and ''Film/{{Parasite}}''.

The film received 9 nominations at the 95th UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, , and won four including Best International Feature, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score and Best Production Design, becoming the joint fourth most-awarded foreign-language film to achieve this feat after ''Film/FannyAndAlexander'', ''Film/CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon'' and ''Film/{{Parasite}}''.

''All Quiet on the Western Front'' (''Im Westen nichts Neues'', literally "Nothing New in the West") is a 2022 war film from UsefulNotes/{{Germany}} directed by Edward Berger. It is the first ever German-language film adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's iconic 1929 novel, ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront''.

Compare the 1930 American film adaptation of the novel, ''Film/{{All Quiet on the Western Front|1930}}''.

* OneLastSmoke: Paul wants to remove the bullet from Kat's stomach but the latter requests a cigarette instead. [[spoiler:Soon afer he is dead]].

* ArmchairMilitary: The German delegation is seen taken refuge in an abandoned, luxurious, spacious château, while being tended to by servants and eating fresh food expertly prepared by experienced chefs. All the while the enlisted men take shelter in whatever nook and cranny they can find in the cramped, mud clogged trenches. This is made more apparent when General Fredrichs look on the distance from a balcony, where just a few kilometers away Paul and the rest of his unit are being massacred by a ferocious French counter attack that uses tanks and flamethrowers to horrifying effect. Fredrichs himself points out that there had been no major war in nearly 50 years, but [[IgnoredEpiphany it flies completely over his own head]].

The film is set in 1917-18 and the last year and a half of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer) is a 17-year-old schoolboy who, along with his buddies Albert, Franz, and Ludwig, volunteer for the UsefulNotes/{{Imperial German|y}} [[UsefulNotes/PrussiansInPickelhauben Army]] after getting a patriotic talk from their teacher. They do not know that the army uniforms they are receiving have been taken from corpses.

* AndStarring: The cast list ends "with Thibault de Montalembert and Creator/DanielBruhl".

* AndStarring: The cast list ends with "And Creator/DanielBruhl".

** Paul's friend Albert Kropps is caught at gunpoint by French soldiers while retreating and is executed by flamethrower. Albert is left screaming in pain and agony until he is finished off with a CoupDeGrace while Paul could only watch helplessly in horror.
** Another soldier ends up crushed under the treads of a French tank, forced to watch its approach as he is unable to leave his position before he is squished.

* AintTooProudToBeg: While retreating in panic from the battlefield, Albert and several German soldiers are cornered by French soldiers armed with flamethrowers. They immediately throw down their rifles and beg them not to shoot. Unfortunately, the French soldiers are in no mood to give mercy and promptly executes them with their flamethrowers.

* ArmchairMilitary: The German delegation is seen taken refuge in an abandoned, luxurious, spacious château, while being tended to by servants and eating fresh food expertly prepared by experienced chefs. All the while the enlisted men take shelter in whatever nook and cranny they can find in the cramped, mud clogged trenches. This is made more apparent when General Fredrichs look on the distance from a balcony, where just a few kilometers away Paul and the rest of his unit are being massacred by a ferocious French counter attack that uses tanks and flamethrowers to horrifying effect. Fredrichs himself points out that there has been no major war in nearly 50 years, but [[IgnoredEpiphany it flies completely over his own head]].

The boys are sent to the trenches where they come under the wing of a veteran sergeant, Stanislaus "Kat" Katczynski (Creator/AlbrechtSchuch). The mud, blood, and horror of the trenches quickly strips the boys of their patriotic enthusiasm. Time passes, and the fortunes of war turn against Germany, and the German army goes into retreat. While the surviving boys try to make it to the end of the war alive, German Minister of Finance Matthias Erzberger (Creator/DanielBruhl) is sent to the French, to beg for an armistice.

The film is set in 1917-18 and the last year and a half of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. Paul Bäumer (FelixKammerer) is a 17-year-old schoolboy who, along with his buddies Albert, Franz, and Ludwig, volunteer for the UsefulNotes/{{Imperial German|y}} [[UsefulNotes/PrussiansInPickelhauben Army]] after getting a patriotic talk from their teacher. They do not know that the army uniforms they are receiving have been taken from corpses.

The film is set in 1917-18 and the last year and a half of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. Paul Bäumer (Creator/FelixKammerer) is a 17-year-old schoolboy who, along with his buddies Albert, Franz, and Ludwig, volunteer for the UsefulNotes/{{Imperial German|y}} [[UsefulNotes/PrussiansInPickelhauben Army]] after getting a patriotic talk from their teacher. They do not know that the army uniforms they are receiving have been taken from corpses.