No news from the western front won the Oscar for best international film tonight, after previously winning the cinematography trophy and then the production design and original score awards. The categories in which it is also nominated, including best picture, adapted screenplay and sound, have yet to be announced. It is the first time since 2006 that a German title has won the International Feature Film Prize The lives of others.
Accepting the international film Oscar, director Edward Berger thanked his staff and family and gave special praise for an emotional film All quiet Star Felix Kammerer says: “This was your first film and you carried us on your shoulders. None of us would be here without you.”
The last time Erich Maria Remarque’s classic anti-war novel was made into a feature film was almost a century, and it won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director. The Netflix update on the horrors of war is told for the first time in German and from a German point of view.
The film follows Paul (Kammerer), a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I, as he and his comrades witness firsthand how the initial euphoria of war turns to despair and fear as they fight for their lives and each other. , in the trenches. Daniel Brühl, Albrecht Schuch and Sebastian Hulk also shine.
The project went through many casting and director iterations before finally landing on Berger, who previously told Deadline that the main reason for it “was to go back to the German novel and make a German film out of it.”
All quiet won dozens of awards on its way to Dolby, and recently received seven BAFTAs, including Best Picture, Director and Foreign Language Film.
The anti-war film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and released on Netflix on October 28. This is a Netflix/theme park film produced with Gunpowder Films in association with Sliding Down Rainbows Entertainment/Anima Pictures Production.
Berger is currently working on an adaptation of the 2016 novel by Robert Harris. conclave With Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, Lucian Msamati, John Lithgow and Isabella Rossellini.
Other nominees in the International Film category were Argentina 1985 (Argentina), near (Belgium), E.O (Poland) and The quiet girl (Ireland).
Source: Deadline
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