The director of the first German film adaptation of the classic 1928 anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front has said he hopes that a “German perspective” on the impact of war on the aggressor country would leave its mark.
“Hopefully it helps to understand that nothing good can come from war,” Edward Berger said of his adaptation – the third time that Erich Maria Remarque’s work has been given the cinematic treatment – at its premiere at the Toronto film festival. “We all know it, but we seem to be forgetting it at every turn.”
