"All Quiet on the Western Front" won the Academy Award for best international film.
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The Netflix film is directed by Edward Berger and has nine Oscar nominations this year.
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It is the first German-language adaptation of a 1928 novel by Erich Maria Remarque.
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The film depicts the horrors of trench warfare through the eyes of a young man initially keen to join the fight.
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The story shows the young man's transformation after being poisoned by right-wing political nationalist propaganda.
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The film was also nominated for best picture at the Oscars.
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Producer Malte Grunert described the film as showing war as "anything but an adventure" in his acceptance speech for the BAFTA awards.
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Sight & Sound reviewed the film, saying it was in "fascinating dialogue" with the history of warfare and cinema about war and atrocities.
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The film beat out international film nominees from Poland, Ireland, Belgium, and Argentina.
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"All Quiet on the Western Front" owes a debt to films like "1917," "Saving Private Ryan," and "Black Hawk Down," according to Sight & Sound.
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