All Quiet on the Western Front

A wrenching German adaptation of the classic war novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" clinched the Academy Award for best international feature on Sunday ...

Just one year after the book came out, a US film adaptation by Lewis Milestone was released. with unflinching images no one will easily forget," she said. Martin Schwickert of the RND media group called the film "frighteningly current in light of the Ukraine war", saying it "made plain what war means for those who have to fight it". "It tackles the horrors of a war in the heart of Europe in a harrowing way... In "All Quiet on the Western Front", World War I is viewed through the eyes of teenage German soldier Paul Baeumer (Kammerer), a volunteer on the Western front. The last German winner of best international feature (a category then known as best foreign language film) was "The Lives of Others" in 2007.

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German pianist Volker Bertelmann picked up the musical award for his work on the German-language film, based on a novel of the same name.

[Which film scores have won at the Oscars? The Oscar is Bertelmann’s first win at the Academy Awards, having been nominated once before for the score of Lion (2016), an Australian biographical drama film. But with this, I recorded the breathing of the instrument, and I distorted it.

The adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's 1929 anti-war novel Im Westen Nichts Neues has taken home four Oscars at the 2023 Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

“War has come so close to us this year,” added Roth. “No book is so good that you can’t turn it into a terrible film,” wrote Süddeutsche Zeitung critic Hubert Wetzel back in October, claiming Berger’s adaptation did not do justice to the 1920s literary classic. Accepting the awards, Swiss director Edward Berger thanked Felix Kammerer for his role as Paul Bäumer, the 17-year-old German soldier at the heart of the story.

The German war drama, which won four Oscars, was funded by Netflix, entirely outside the country's tradition state subsidy system.

That [the most successful ](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-producer-film-resonance-oscars-1235339192/)German film ever at the Academy [Awards](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/awards/) was bankrolled by a U.S. Roth has called for a fundamental overhaul of Germany’s €600 million ($640 million) a year film funding system, citing All Quiet on the Western Front as an example of how filmmaking has transformed and why Germany’s very bureaucratic funding system needs to adjust. One of Roth’s proposals is to have Netflix and other major streaming companies contribute more to funding German movies. [Netflix](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/netflix/) film — fully financed outside Germany’s state subsidy system — was the cause of some handwringing. “A huge success for German cinema,” raved German Chancellor, or prime minister, Olaf Scholz in a message to Berger and his team. The culture minister used her opening night speech at this year’s Berlin Film Festival to make the point that streaming services have dramatically changed the “environment for creating, making and experiencing movies” and that the German funding system, which relies on financing and distribution from television broadcasters and theatrical distributors, is out of pace with the times. 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[All Quiet on the Western Front](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/all-quiet-on-the-western-front/) in Germany — Edward Berger’s groundbreaking World War I epic [won four Academy Awards](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-winners-list-1235349224/) at the 2023 [Oscars](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/oscars/) on Sunday night, including for [best international feature](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-oscar-international-feature-1235347552/), best score, best production design and best cinematography, a new record for German movie — there was some very Teutonic soul searching. [the movie’s technical excellence](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/oscars-2023-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-craft-1235347574/), as well as to Berger’s very distinct anti-war message. German Culture Minister Claudia Roth, who had traveled to Los Angeles for the Oscars, called Berger’s adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s anti-war classic “the right film at the right time,” as it shows “a war in Europe, in all its cruelty and brutality,” just as another such war, the war in Ukraine “is currently raging again in the heart of Europe.” [Share this article on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/&title=Oscars:%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix’s%20‘All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front’%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany’s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform&sdk=joey&display=popup&ref=plugin&src=share_button&app_id=1153511048447777) [Share this article on Twitter](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/&text=Oscars%3A%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix%E2%80%99s%20%E2%80%98All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front%E2%80%99%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany%E2%80%99s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform&via=thr) [Share this article on Email](mailto:?subject=thr%20:%20Oscars:%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix’s%20‘All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front’%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany’s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform&body=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/%20-%20Oscars:%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix’s%20‘All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front’%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany’s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform) [Show additional share options](#) [Share this article on Print]() [Share this article on Comment](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/#respond) [Share this article on Whatsapp](whatsapp://send?text=Oscars:%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix’s%20‘All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front’%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany’s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform%20-%20https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/) [Share this article on Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=1&url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/&title=Oscars:%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix’s%20‘All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front’%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany’s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform&summary&source=thr) [Share this article on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/&title=Oscars:%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix’s%20‘All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front’%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany’s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform) [Share this article on Pinit](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/link/?url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/&description=Oscars:%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix’s%20‘All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front’%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany’s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform) [Share this article on Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/widgets/share/tool/preview?shareSource=legacy&canonicalUrl&url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/&posttype=link&title=Oscars:%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix’s%20‘All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front’%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany’s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform)