If there were laws that a soldier's minimum age will be 30 years old and have had a previous minimum net income of $100K/yr. ...there would be no war....nobody to fight it.
World War 1 was probably the most depressing war to fight in. Being stuck in trenches for months, thousands dying for just yards and losing gained ground from counterattacks,and fighting and dying on mud.
That was not my grandfather's experience. He fought through the wheat fields of northeastern France in 1918 in the Allied counteroffensive almost constantly on the move.
Published in 1928, the book was an immediate global bestseller, translated into 28 languages. Almost every WW1 veteran read the book and everyone knew that this was his story, regardless of whether he was German, British, French, American or Russian. It's an absolute must read for anyone remotely interested in WW1 history and literature.
@@lxDastanxl The Nazis absolutely did burn this book and branded Remarque as a coward who they felt sapped the German war spirit needed for the coming conflict.
The book is pretty much an autobiography of the author's experience on the western front, just with some names changed. So of course it would be from the German point of view, it was a German who wrote it.
@@edelgyn2699 well, not just that. From an Australian perspective, we had just become 'Federated' (not independent though) and the men of Australia were so excited about going overseas on an "adventure", not really understanding what war really was. So much so that despite the enlistment age being 16, many young boys as young as 12 actually lied about their age & disappeared from home only to be writing to their families on the front lines. They freely went themselves. We now call them 'the lost generation'. as those poor boys who did survive came home utterly broken.
I liked fly boys because I love Jean Reno 😂 but yes I do like films like Der rote Baron Das boot all quit on the western front. Generation war. Stalingrad 1993. America needs to stop overshadowing ww2 and stop saying they are the reason for all success in the world. Fk off. 😂 Hence why I love Europeans and British More.
In Germany, soldiers from the past did not receive any honors or even names after the fact. Especially not from WWII, since they were all fascists and Nazis. Everything is prevented from young people from taking something like this as a role model. Politicians are paying very close attention to this. War films are reviewed and evaluated very critically in Germany. Even All Quiet on the Western Front has been titled as the worst war movie of all time by some film critics. However, I find it outstanding and absolutely worth seeing. Even if it's hard to bear.
I haven't been this excited about a Netflix original in a long time. All Quiet on the Western Front is one of my all-time favorite novels, I re-read it every year or two. Beautifully haunting.
@John I meant beautiful in the sense that the ability of the author to accurately capture the horror of WWI and the loss that the young soldiers felt not only in terms of losing friends but also in the ability to live a normal life since many joined before they establish a family, a career, or roots to come back to. "The war has ruined us for everything. He is right. We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer..." So while the subject matter is haunting, the author's writing style captured that horror in a beautiful way.
I think it's a sequence of the type of "the ordinary day", I found it effective at setting the bar for later scenes, one when the protagonist is handed the uniform, and later after the barrage when he gets told "everyday is the same" or something like that
As a dressmaker that loves history I love that the girl knew how to actually work the machine. Not at all am important detail in the overall movie but I appreciated it
I'm so glad this film is in german and German films are getting more recognition. It scared more to the core and made me appreciate what and all I have. I don't need to risk my life. I can be free.
Yeah.. speaking of war, did you know the news about what's happening in Gaza? It's been plastered in news everywhere, the reality is that, it's a genocide happening in Gaza. And blockade, the amount of children dead.. almost 15k dead. I'm not exaggerating it's just horrible. 2.3 million displaced and more under the rubble.. it really doesn't matter who wins it's just.. the lives were killed for no reason, civilians, widows..
Made me cry multiple times. It communicates its ideals very clearly. War is fought between the young and naive and waged by the old and bitter with no heroes to be found here. It‘s been a few years since I read the novel but this made me want to read it again.
@@KingdomRepublic Well that's what a lot of them did. They deserted the war. Even now many Russians left to avoid joining a war against Ukraine as they don't believe in it. This is why you need term limits so you don't have dinosaurs stay in power forever.
I watched this movie in one go. I didn’t allow myself to feel any outward emotions till it was over. I sat in my living room for about 1 hour just thinking about the movie, life, the lives of them and the soldiers that died. I also thought about what they would want me to do with my life to maybe have some closure. I decided to ask my friend to grab dinner. We must cherish the people in our lives while we can. Great movie. One of the best I have seen.
Yes I had a similar reaction after turning it off. Just kind of sat there in the dark for a few minutes and paid attention to my world. Amazing flick. Very powerful.
This deserves to win the Oscar for Best Picture. Only if you show the real horrors of war, you can convince people that peace is always better. So don't be depressed after watching this movie, since you know the more people watch this movie, the more peace supporters will be in this world. We are all human beings, no matter where we come from. We should not have war between us, because we are all the same. Human beings.
Just finished this movie. I'm going to say it. Credit where credit is due Netflix. This is one of the best and most realistic modern war movie I have ever seen. It even rivales the likes of Saving Private Ryan in my opinion. Seeing the war from the German pov was such a good breath of fresh air. This movie is a modern masterpiece
Because you're mentioning Saving Private Ryan, I want to recommend watching Come and See (1985) by Elem Klimov. It's probably the best anti-war films of all time.
I agree. There are not a lot of war movies showing their side, most of them just showing the US to be superior and the good guys. This one gives a much appreciated nuance on the whole situation. You almost feel sorry for soldiers thinking they could all have been good pals and shared a beer together had it not been for the war. They are all suffering and paying because of the stupidity and ego of old men. They wouldn't even join their men but talk big about sacrifice and glory... Ugh
*I'm glad WWI is getting more and more recognition, especially showing the German perspective, both sides suffered the brutality of trench warfare, both of them were young adults that witnessed hell!!*
Sure people blame german due to 2nd world war image forgetting French cooked it up with astonishingly harsh & humiliating terms of the "traité de Versailles" (and yeap i'm French). 1st world war was a "battle of ego", & over pushed patriotism, fear (England feared what Germany could become), revenge (for the French who take the chance to take Alsace & Loraine back...) None of those have anything to do with the starting point of the war. To me WWI is what war is. For in war there is no victors, only dead and survivors, the rest is propaganda. What come out victorious in wars is ideas... and most of the time not the one you wish to promote, and a lot of them are like snakes in your boots.
@@sortilien2099 most of the blame actually falls on the countries that escalated the Balkan Crisis. (Austria Hungary and Russia). I wouldn’t really blame France for it.
@@DanielGervais My brother was a door gunner in Vietnam. He faced the Viet Cong storming the fences at Da Nang airfield during the Tet Offensive. He was wounded twice and received two Bronze Stars and two Purple Hearts. Afterward, while in the hospital. a request came for any ambulatory patients to help with clean up at the Catholic orphanage. He had helped the nuns and played with the children during his free time. He loved little kids. He was six foot five and had a goofy smile. The kids called him Người khổng lồ vui tính (The funny giant). He thought he was going to help clean up wreckage and assist the nuns. When the Deuce and a Half pulled up to the scene, Danny was handed body bags. For the next day, he gathered pieces of the children and nuns. The dead were placed in body bags and then buried en masse in the Catholic Cemetary. After his two tours in Vietnam, he returned to us. Once while we were watching a movie one of the characters said; "War is hell." Danny got up with tears in his eyes and as he left the room he said in an emotional voice said: "I prefer hell!" For almost five decades, the faces of the dead haunted his dreams. My brother was euthanized by the VA in 2017 after fracturing a femur while under their "care."
@Normal Guy 2022 Storm of Steel has no message and, frankly, had to be revised multiple times to tone down Jünger’s boldfaced nationalism in the face of any reason or critical thought. He was a good soldier, but not one with much of a conscience. We don’t need stories like his. They don’t do us any good. We need the ones that remind us why war is waste. Not a teenage boy’s idea of “valor” without agency, which Jünger never seemed to grow past. Bravery without agency just makes you a sword for other men to wield and dispose of, and usually evil ones.
This has to be the Greatest war film of all times.. This tells that there are no heroes but only victims in war.. Heart wrenching. What an experience this was!
My grandfather fought in the trenches in WW1. He had just finished college when he was called up, he was due to a get a job in engineering but after fighting in the war, he decided to become a doctor. He had said that he felt helpless when his comrades got injured and died on the battlefield so he dedicated the rest of his life to helping others who were injured or ill. Unfortunately he didn‘t get to live as long as he wanted since he was exposed to mustard gas. Because he became a doctor, he knew how he‘d die. He‘d died 5 decades after fighting. Its really nice to see films and books about WW1, WW2 wasn‘t the only brutal war. An entire generation was lost and forever changed because of WW1.
@@zachrabaznaz7687 he breathed some of the gas in before he could get his gas make on. He got sick then but recovered but it did damage his lungs. His health wasn’t the same afterwards. Many soldiers die years or even decades after battle from injuries they sustained, it’s not unusual.
Without WWI happening or finishing the way it did, the factors leading to the rise of totalitarianism and the events leading to WWII would have never happened. That war was a colossal tragedy over one nation that provoked a war by issuing an ultimatum that no country would have accepted to a country whose radicals assassinated the heir to the other nation's throne. When that heir was down in a historical city of that people to celebrate a humiliating victory over such people. So both sides were in the wrong. That incident escalated tensions to the point where that minor regional conflict escalated, plunging the whole world into an unstoppable maelstrom of death and destruction. That war should be looked at more and more in history in the US, Britain, and Europe because it has a more substantial impact. Because that war created the Nazis, it empowered the Bolsheviks to take over Russia and implement a Communist regime, making the Blackshirts that took over Italy. That conflict set up the rest of the 20th century because of one Gavrilo Princip assassinating Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand and his wife. Pretty remarkable how one average joe could do a drastic act and commit the world to war when a major war had not gripped Europe since Napoleon Bonaparte over a century prior.
My great grandfather, a 17 years old German kid, fought in the Somme and in Reims short before the Armistice. He was badly injured but survived. His story has given me strength in the most difficult moments of my life. Every kid today should listen, read, watch these stories.
Just finished watching the movie and it is probably the best movie I have watched this year. It really shows how the young and innocent are sacrificed for an old man's ego.
Just finished this movie a few minutes ago. This is probably one of the most gut-wrenching and heartbreaking films I have ever viewed in my entire life. Bravo to the actors, they did an amazing job and I truly felt ever string of pain and emptiness they portrayed. This was such a depressing movie, I’m not sure I can watch anything like it ever again.
All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the most incredible, depressing, thought-provoking WW1 movies I’ve ever watched. It perfectly captures the senselessness and tragedy of war. The film doesn’t romanticise the battles. It is honest in its portrayal. Both sides are depicted as possessing brutality and humanity because that was the reality of the war. Young men were sent into a meat grinder by their superiors for a few kilometres of farmland, their innocence stolen. If you haven’t already, please find the time to watch this masterpiece.
@@theroldan8675 This is by far the dumbest comment I've seen today. The movie is a human reiteration on world war 1 from 1917. the only political meaning behind this is to deviate all ages from war by showing its honest, brutal truth.
Hands down the best war movie ever made. And ive seen almost every war movie in the past 40 years. Only ones that come close are hamburger hill saving pvt ryan black hawk down and outpost and siege of jadotville
I'm just happy, at last a soldier in WW movies, spoke in their native language. Edit: thank you for all the recommendations. Of course I do realise that many movies have done this before. I was referring to a joke made by Hugh Dennis on Mock the Week about a scene in war movies, where a German soldier quipped "why are we speaking English?"
That's always been a thing it's called English or German movies, even in British films made during Ww11 they would include Dutch speakers to portray Dutch civilians
Despite how advanced a history class may be, nothing compares to these cinematography skills which portray World War I in the most easy to understand and immersive way ever. Props to them!
My great great uncle was a British rifleman. He was brought into the trenches with the wave of volunteers which finished their training just before the Somme. He was killed in a charge on the 2nd of July, 1916, the second day of the battle. He has no known grave. Even today my grandfather drops in mood when talking about the way his father spoke of him. What that war took from us as a species cannot be forgotten. I recommend anybody to do a battlefield tour of some ww1 sites and memorials, especially the Ypres Salient. Rest in Peace Frank Irish and all others who have died in war 🌹.
My Grandpa was in WW1. He came back a shell of his former self. He had what is today called "PTSD" for the rest of his life (passed away at 77yo). When I was a child we played war games with his helmet, gas mask and bayonet. He was always very kind to me. He had uncontrolable shaking that wasnt Parkinson's. I still see his face like it was yesterday.
@@leo-rs3cjhe won’t rest in peace Until we stand collectively as the only living words breathing gods who walk this precious earth and see that Everyone has a fair piece, the Only way to Peace for all. Where no one any longer starves. A Real heaven/having for all where we make this the best it can be to. A worthy place to reincarnate again
I'm french, my families lost 5 parents at the battles of La Marne & Verdun during this awful war. I watched this movie and I felt depressed by thinking of all of the people who died on both sides. It is still hard to believe that happened. Respect to the fallen ones.
@@stormcrowgucci8776 T es anglais ou americain ? tu peux me dire ou s est deroulé la premiere guerre mondiale ? sur ton pays ? Toujours si facile de critiquer quand on a aucune frontière terrestre avec un autre pays hein surtout a cette epoque.
Merci Lou, ma famille aussi a connu la guerre, mon grand pere s est engagé a 16 ans et avait fait les deux guerres mondiales, il faisait parti des commandos qui allaient derriere les lignes allemandes pendant la première guerre mondial et a recu plusieurs fois la legion d'honneur... , le commentaire de storm et en general de ceux qui critiquent la france sali leur memoire.
When I was in Middle School I had to do a book report on the book in 8th Grade. I also watched the 1979 film. It was an incredible film and this new version looks just as incredible. Hell, they include French St. Charmond tanks. That's the equivalent of seeing a unicorn for tank enthusiasts.
I just saw the movie in a German theater. One of the most immersive experiences ever. You can almost feel the mud and smell the trenches. The cinematography is absolutely incredible. The acting is also genuinely great. I usually cringe when I see German actors.. it often looks unnatural to me, but absolutely not in this movie. There are some decisions in the story arc that I am not too happy about and that deviate from the book, but overall it is a fantastic movie.
I’m a Flemish archaeologist and UXO detector in Belgium and France. It gives me chills every time I step on no man’s land. Like death is still present in everything
I remember reading this book in high school. It was chilling from beginning to end. It is slightly based on the author’s experiences as a soldier in World War I, and it got to the point where the Nazis started going after him and his family due to the book’s anti-war message.
My great grandfather was a German soldier during WW1 and his journals depicted how horrible it was as a 17 year old boy. My dad said this book was his favorite because of how accurate it was
@@syamsul6063 my gramps fought in ww2 with 17. He was an alcholic afterwards. He saw some horribel shit. He was at the east front and a war prisoner after the war. My father had a lot to suffer from him, but can we really blame him? He was damaged after this war....
@@walkerdaw6 May be for cinematography but another film called "Argentina, 1985" is more catnip to Oscar voting members. Its story about a couple of prosecutors attempting to bring to trial the heads of the military dictatorship in Argentina for their part in the atrocities committed across the country in the 1980s is deemed more Oscar-worthy. It had already won a slew of awards and also the Golden Globe which Oscars usually follow.
I read this as a freshman in high school, and it was the first time I really understood that just because one side wins and another loses doesn't mean the soldiers on the other side were monsters. They were all just human. Obeying orders, like those on the winning side. It was a harsh but necessary lesson for me. I am grateful to this author, and the people who lived through that hell. The black and white film with Lew Ayers was pretty damn good as well. This looks like all the good faith efforts have been made. I am ...excited is the wrong word, but I am readying myself to witness this tale and remember these brave souls again.
I read this in 10th grade and it forever changed my perspective on war. I knew it was bad and traumatizing before, of course, but I did not comprehend the depths of a soldier’s experience until I read this book. It remains one of the best books I read during high school.
Congrats to all involved with the making of this film. And congrats to you, the majority of the commenters, who overwhelmingly agreed that war is awful, that there aren't winners, that the young are often exploited by the governments who have an agenda and that we need peace. This movie is perhaps the most brutal movie I have ever seen. I felt gut punched and my eyes hurt from tears, connecting with the fallen youth of the enemy. It didn't win the big prize tonight but it got its recognition. One of the most important movies I've ever seen. Thank you to all who made this happen ...filmmakers, please continue to make important works like this for real world change.
I cried and went silent the whole movie. One of the best and most realistic ww1 movies ever. I'm dreaming of home. I hope these fallen soldiers have found the calm, rest and peace they deserve. You're home now.
My great great grandfather fought at the somme. He was lucky to survive and come home, but the war took a heavy toll on him. He didn't reach his 40th birthday before complications from the war took him (stress had shaved decades off his life, and gas exposure weakened his lungs) Rest In Peace Nathan Simons, rifleman, father, and husband 🕊
I remember visiting the Somme crater in France. Even though it’s covered by grass and flowers, it’s still sobering to think how much explosive power was behind something that could create a crater that deep, and the psychological trauma that soldiers had to go through, fearing that they might step on a mine just like that
I finished reading the book a few weeks ago and I have to say it was the most tragic and profound story I’ve ever read. It paints such vivid and terrifying images in my mind that no other book has done. Hearing the screams of wounded horses tangled in their own spilt intestines until they are put down. Feeling the bleak and dreary grey of the lorries. And finally the dark sky of the front lit up with bright red and green flares and star shells. God that book really paints insanely vivid images that I’ve been illustrating my own interpretations recently.
Erich Maria Remarque is in a very special category when it comes to depicting the tragedy of human condition. Try reading "The Triumph Arc" and "Three Friends". The sense of dread is always palpable, even when there seem to be streaks of light on any given page. Watching the world tear itself apart now is so shocking as someone who was a child when we moved to the U.S. from former USSR. People will never learn.
That's why I feel like the trailer isn't capturing that at all, it somewhat epic, while this whole book was slow and gray tragedy. Maybe it's adaptation won't be that good at all
@@Dostav I really hope the movie represents the physiological aspects of the book. Because to me one of the best parts was seeing how their entire worldview changes, and how it affects them mentally. As someone diagnosed with ptsd myself(not from anything near as horrible as this tho) it really hit home with the part where Paul goes on leave. It’s like after you’ve seen some shit you really can never see things the same again, like losing all innocence. The book is a slow, and for the most part monotonous and depressing ride, but that’s what made it such a great story, it didn’t sugercoat anything and didn’t pull any punches.
i had tears in my eyes during the whole movie duration. Had to think off my Great Grandfather, who somehow survived 3 years on the western front. As a Grenadier.
We need these movies to continue to be made and for people to watch them so that we all learn that humanity has to avoid war at this scale at all cost forevermore.
As long as the US military industrial complex runs foreign policy for profit, there will always be wars and proxy wars. forever. no meeting of minds can occur when ultimate hegemony is always sought by the current most powerful military complex.
After seeing this movie I understand why ww veterans should have the massive respect they get. Im a 19 years old sitting at my couch and i cant even imagine what this dudes went through.
@@andrew4388 pointless ? Most of the countries has pretty good reason to go to war at that time sadly. And many countries wanted this war. Even without the balkan... My country France would have declared war anyways.
The Cinematography, the acting and the sound and i love how it makes my heart not skip a bit, can't imagine being in a situation like that. The masterpiece!
I dont know why when i see this movie i feel scared that we will doing this again in WW3. I think this is not just a movie but remember to all man to get ready
As the child born and raised in USSR I was amazed when I came across this book because it was so weird to read a story from a German perspective (also a Time to live and a time to die). I think that was a first time I realized that behind "enemy" in every war there are people P.S. My grand grandfather fought in WWI on Eastern front. 30th Siberian regiment. Was hospitalised with scurvy. His name was Mitrophan Yermakov P.P.S. This reply section is a train wreck😂
I don’t think there’s a limit to how much one can talk about WWI. There are just so many stories and accounts that are important and interesting that it makes sense for all the books, shows, and movies about it. I look forward to this new movie!
Saw this movie in limited run early this month. Was incredible, teared up, one of the most devastating war films of all time. It will stay with you for long after the credits roll.
1917 really haunted me for at least a week after I watched it. I couldn't stop thinking about it. Really a beautiful film, but yeah, just haunting. I've heard the book this movie is based on is quite haunting as well.
A truly heart-breaking story! I watched it on the big screen and this was a breathtaking experience. Haven't seen such a powerful German movie in a while. I truly feel that this does the novel justice.
i watched the original a few days ago. most terrifying movie i’ve ever watched, not because of its shock factor but because of how it will stick with me and change my views of war for the rest of my life.
@@xXEYSPENXx oh God knows, I’m not even sure myself. If that was to happen, you can expect it to be at least 90M. Well I think that’d be the case. But I have no idea what that may look like exactly. Just hope that won’t happen at all.
Coming back after it’s multiple wins tonight at the oscars. I’m so grateful, it’s such a great movie and so well done, i don’t understand the sudden hate for it because of all the wins. i was nervous it wouldn’t win because this doesn’t glorify america in any way but now, i’m so happy. please, everyone watch this.
@@marklanger7965 read it junior year of high school… it’s a very grim and sad book, but it’s extremely accurate to the experience of WWI. I thought it was a really good tragic tale
My Great Grandfather fought at the Somme in WW1, his survival story is one still sticks with me years after hearing it. When he was injured he was carried off to an aid station, to get there him and his comrades would have to walk down a country road, my great grandfather told the men carrying him to put him down because he only hold them back and put them in danger, so they lay him in a bank at the side of the dirt road gave him some ammunition and some cigarettes and carried on without him. He stayed there up until he could hear a horse and cart coming up the road, so he dug himself in and aimed his rifle down the road thinking it was Germans coming toward him, as the cart come into view he recognised the man on the cart, it was one of his mates from his home town in Exmouth, Devon UK, he was then put on the cart and taken back to an aid station which he was then later bandaged up and sent home. Still to this day I find it a truly amazing story.
I just watched this movie tonight. Literally the whole time I was like, "Damn, what did I just watch?!" Everytime I saw someone getting killed brutally. My heart hurts knowing this once happened in real life back then. No one deserve it. This is definitely a great movie. The delivery is top match, almost gave me a ptsd 😭 11/10
My grandfather fought in the trenches in France; i often think about him as a young man going through that experience. He came home with his lungs damaged and died too early.
We had to watch this in history class and I will say, the whole class was in tears. This has to rank my top 3 of favorite war movies due to how accurate and greatly made it was
I'm a history teacher - just curious, did your teacher have to show you an edited version? Did you have to sign permission slips or did they just show it? Glad you enjoyed - sounds like you have a great teacher!
@@davidr3359 We did indeed have to sign slips, and the teacher had to get permission from the district office, (she mentioned it to us) and other than that it was all we had to do
I experienced this movie at the Toronto International Film Festival and DEFINITELY recommend people watch it. It’s a difficult watch at times with how gut-wrenching and visceral some scenes are but it’s a movie I won’t forget anytime soon for it’s strong messages about the realities of war.
I also experienced it. I was in tears at the end of the movie and couldn't talk for all the evening. It was truly a hard movie to watch but necessary to understand how pointless and cruel the war is.
Most people went to fight ww1 because they felt they needed too, for they’re country, and they wanted adventure. Obviously it wasn’t what they expected
Paronax does have a point.... a point that should be part of the movie and definitely was in the two previous ones. The old movies depict very well, how the combination of patriotism, propaganda, peer pressure and having no clue what the war was really like made the boys recruited right in the class-room volunteer to go into "glorious battle" only to find themselves stuck in a quagmire beyond their worst nightmares. The coloured one even had one of the soldiers returning for a brief vacation and calling out the recruiters to their faces, only for the young boys to call him a coward because they've been so indoctrinated and high on patriotism (I don't remember if the black-and-white had that scene too... it's been so long since I've seen that). Though naturally there was one group that was definitely not tricked into serving: Conscripts. And that's why I really don't like the direction this trailer is showing. It's all epic and spectacular, but that's not what the old movies were about (I haven't read the book, so I can't comment on that). Also the old ones were all about the soldiers in the trechnes from the persepctive of a specific boy, not the high command and officers.
Just finished watching it today. It's unforgiving. WW1 always hits me the most. Probably because it always makes me think of my great-grandfather and about everything he must have been through. Born in 1892 in the 'Harz Gebirge' (Harz-mountains) in central Germany, he was one of the unfortunate sons send to the Western-Front. After taking shrapnel from a nearby artillery shell, he was taken to a field hospital where they patched him up. After he recovered they saw him fit enough to be send back to the Western-Front, but he himself had other plans... In the middle of the night he smashed the locks of a prison cell containing a Belgium prisoner he befriended and they both took the leap of faith and fled towards the neutral Netherlands, this was still however miles and miles away from the Western-Front. Supossedly according to my grandfather they miraciously found an old rowboat in the water eventually (it makes you re-evaluate your opinion on fate). They must have labeled him a deserter, a 'Feigling' as the Germans would've called it. I'd say it takes guts to do what he did, the man was a survivor and even till this day it brings tears to my eyes thinking about it, the fact that his blood runs through my veins. His name was ~ Gustav Hermann Otto Ameling.
@@javasrevenge7121 The followup story is more tragic though. My great grandfather settled in the Netherlands and married in 1921, but basically being a war refugee meant that he had to start everything up from scratch. This also meant that he didn't have the money to neutralise his Nationality, something that would come back to haunt him when the Nazis would annex the Netherlands during WW2. During WW2 the Nazis came to his house and took his two oldest sons, because my great-grandfather was still technically of German nationality... He attempted to escape war, but war wasn't finished with him yet... His oldest son Friedrich (Freek in Dutch) died in France, mangled beyond recognition by a fighter plane's machine gun. His second oldest was send to the Eastern front and never came back when the war ended. My grandfather was 17 in 1945 and in the first stages of recruitment when the war ended, considering WW2 was in it's last stage, it's almost certain that he would have been send to the Battle of Berlin or something similar, meaning almost certain dead. The war ended just in time for my grandfather. My great-grandfather himself was too old for active service, however being a German in occupied Holland meant that he had privileges, one of them being that he was allowed to walk the streets during evening curfews, which he used to warn adresses with Jewish families in hiding. After the war that all didn't matter much though, there was a huge anti-German sentiment and he was German after all... so they robbed him of his tractor and farming equipment, leaving him to start back up from scratch yet again. My great-grandfather died in 1952 at the age of 60. The piece of shrapnel he took during WW1 was travelling through his body and punctured his organs. Around 1955 the second oldest son showed up at home, rags of cloth bound around his feet and almost unrecognizable. He was finally released from Soviet prison. He was an alcoholic for the remainder of his life.
@Aurelian "Stay and fight" for a hopeless cause. The western front was the most pointless front in human history. 5 million young men between 13 and 30 years old died for 200 meters/yards of terrain gain in only 4 years. That's like wiping out the entire population of a country like Denmark in just 4 years time. Is it bravery to fight in a battle where people's heads are smashed in like eggshells, burned to a crisp by flamethrowers and are just simply killed by the thousands on a daily basis? I believe bravery is to rise against adversity, to do something despite the odds and despite fear of repercussions in order to gain something greater, usually a greater good. When a war/battle gains absolutely utterly nothing other than an early grave, can we then speak of a greater good? When it renounces the whole concept of bravery, the only viable act of bravery left is saving your own soul in order to survive. Besides my great-grandfather already nearly died by shrapnel from a grenade/artillery shell and almost certainly already witnessed lots of his brothers perish. It's not like he fled on the first day he arrived there.
my great grandfather fought in ww1,first in Gallipoli and then on the western front, he was seriously injured in gas attack. he made it home but my grandmother said he was plagued by nightmares and severe coughing fits. he died young only 43 years old, can't imagine what horrors he witnessed. R.I.P to all those poor souls and Lest we forget 🇦🇺
Masterpiece is one of the two words that come out to me. The other one is speechless. Not that we have nothing to say about it. This movie is as good and powerfull as it also is shocking and depressing. One of the best I have ever seen. Any war is useless unless you fight for freedom.
"Any war is useless unless you fight for freedom." the problem is that this sentence can mean anything, can justify any war, some people think they fight in a good war, some other no, and what is freedom? Like what war was useful ? No we should think of why did those wars happens, what triggered them, what did they do, who wanted those wars If there is a war in your country, what would you do today? Fight? run?
@@Dhieen You are right on your thoughts and I agree with you. But... Freedom is the right to speak, the right to move, its when you have no fear, but you have to respect the freedom of the one by your side. Is the right to love any god or none, to be white, brown, yellow or black. The right to be Hetero, homo, bi or whatever. The right to be comunist, liberal or capitalist. Freedom brings responsabiltiy. If we dont have these rights, what do we have?
Pretty sure every war is a fight for freedom as one side will be looking to fend off the territorial aggression of the invader. “Fighting for freedom” is really just a narrative.😂😂
@@randomcon123 Cant agree with you for obvious reasons... Freedom starts on human rights. If you have it, you are probably a free person. If you dont have it, you might be seen as a animal or a slave or something that can be wasted just because... For me, its simple as that.
@@ebalona yes, freedom itself is a intrinsec good, but "to fight for freedom" is almost always your country telling you how the enemy is a threat to your freedom, while they are told the same about you
The movie is absolutely fantastic, some of the sequences from the book have been changed, but the overall artistic adaptation very much preserves the core of what made it so amazing. It is absolutely worth watching even if you haven't read the book. It's pretty depressing, but that's what war is - there are no redeeming qualities to it, it always messes you up in one way or another.
I read it a couple of years ago and most of the time I had chills while reading it... One of my most favorite books ever. I think I am going to bawl my eyes out watching the movie
That book is a masterpiece, you as reader, you are literal in his body on the battlefield. It feels so real what he has experienced. I am happy that the WW1 get more movies to not forget them
@@martijn2246 do it, you have to read it before you watch the movie. And use Battlefield 1 soundtrack while you read it. I did that because 6 years ago was that ww1 game released a masterpiece
I remember reading a book about this in my sophomore year of high school… It’s truly heartbreaking to those people who lost their lives fighting, especially if they were barely an adult. Back then the motto was basically if you’re fit to fight, no matter if you’re 16 or 50 years old, they would draft you anyway. Can’t wait to watch this movie
Old rich men would send infants to fight and die in their pissing contests if they new it would mean they would win. And it still hasn’t change, Now Putin is drafting many Russian boys and men who shouldn’t be forced to fight. All for his ego.
If you really can't wait, then just watch one of the two already exisiting movies. Both are really good, though I expect people to gravitate toward the coloured one more than the really old black-and-white one.
Just finished watching. It's a masterpiece. I came in hearing nothing but good reviews, and I wasnt disappointed. If youre watching looking forward to "which side you'll bet for", wanting to see generals win and war cries of victory, this is the movie for you, because it needs to be realized that there's no true winners of war, atleast for the soldiers that fought them. I think, war is a defeat for mankind in itself. We need to humanize the millions of people that died, whether it's for "honor or false pride'.
Ich habe das Buch gelesen. Das war schmerzhaft genug. Aber ich bin froh, dass das Werk für alle Menschen, die lieber Filme schauen nochmal aufgearbeitet und bekannt gemacht wird. Es ist wirklich wichtig, dass das nicht in Vergessenheit gerät, was Krieg wirklich bedeutet.
@Claire Wolf - "I have read the book. That was painful enough. But I am glad that the work is being reworked and made known to all people who prefer to watch films. It's really important that we don't forget what war really means." For sure.
There’s a difference between a War with swords and Shields, and a War with Weapon Arsenal. The different experiences. One is just more destructive than the other. That’s all it is, giving the Warrior a harsher experience.
Both my Great Grandfathers served in the First World War and I actually got to meet one of them before he passed when I was 7. Was shot up by machine gun fire on his right forearm and had this huge scar …… scary stuff. I can’t wait to see this in honor of both of them. The trailer is giving me chills already.
Two of my great grandfathers also fought in WW1, for the Germans, although not German themselves. (Minority in Germany). Lots of respect for what they went through. And btw you have four great grandfathers, not just two :)
Two of my great grandfathers also serve in WW1. One served on SU-103 and barely survived it when it was rammed by the Olympic. The other died in the fields of Verdun leaving his young wife and children.
My great grandfather was a military mail man got his foot shot off and was discharged never met him but my Great grandmother kept all of shoes had a single one for every day
I had to read this book in high school. After I finished it I immediately went to Barnes and noble to buy my own copy. It’s an incredible story and it was one of the first pieces of literature to make me cry. I’m excited to see it adapted for the screen.
This was one of the books we had to read for our german classes way back. I remember it absolutely breaking my heart - what a masterpiece this movie is. The Oscar nomination is well deserved
Incredibly powerful movie with an antiwar statement that hits me right where it should. I don't think I've seen anything close to this in a war movie since the intro to Saving Private Ryan. Those 3 ominous notes played by what I think is a horn choir gives me chills every time. This one has all that I want from a war film. Grittiness, despair, violence, bleakness, all that makes me appreciate what I have in life more. Those poor boys...
@El Bearsidente Not surprised. Not having read the book, I just have to view this as a war movie among other war movies. Maybe they should've called it something else. I do plan on reading the book at some point though.
My grandfather fought in WW2 on the Russian front and the Carpathians. He wrote a book about his experience, and the book is still unpublish. The original text is with me, and I plan to publish it one day. It is the heart-wrenching story of a dad (my grand grandfather) and his son (my grandfather), who fought on opposite sides, but both managed to survive and meet after the war.
My Great Grandfather fought in the French 224th Infantry Regiment during the First World War. He was severely wounded on 8 September 1918 at the Aisne when he took shrapnel to the face and eye, partially blinding him. He was also cited for bravery in his army records and was awarded the military medal, war cross, and the legion of honour. My father told me that on every armistice day, on November 11, my Great Grandfather would cry. The war broke him and made him a very serious man. My Great Grand-Uncle on the other hand did not survive. Conscripted in January 1916 into the 99th Infantry Regiment, he saw combat at Verdun, Saint Quentin, and Chemin des Dames. He was killed in action on June 10, 1917 at Cerny-en-Lannois, Chemin des Dames.
@@methamphetamineaddict5217 Yes, and I never met my Great Grandfather. I am saying that my dad recalled that my Great Grandfather would cry on every November 11th, but apart from that, he was a stern and serious man. The war made him that way.
My grandfather was a stretcher bearer in ww1 with his brother in the Seaforths . They both went out to bring back the injured and dead . His brother was shot dead , and my Grampa was shot in the arm .He still brought back his dead brother and an injured man . Never once talked about anything to do with the war ….poor Grampy xx
I highly recommend the 1930 film before seeing this one. It may be 92 years old but the film still holds up in many regards and is considered one of the earliest anti war films. A genuine classic.
Damn. I had a little shock at 1:17. I have the exact same watch. It's from my great grandfather who was a teacher. He was a german soldier in WW2. I don't know much about him, but former students of him told me he was a strict, but good teacher.
When I was a kid in the 70's there was an old man lived across the alley who had been a German soldier. He was missing an eye and was always nice to the kids. It would be interesting to hear their stories but I was to young to have any concept.
The best book ever written on the WW I. Raw, cruel, beautiful. The real masterpiece, written by the master writer who wrote like no other. I cannot imagine the film could come even close to the beauty of this book.
This movie shook me to my core, it was so good! It was shot so amazingly and even though it's known that this is the war where tanks and flamethrowers were introduced and its understood how horrendous this was to humanity, I was just so shocked when I saw it on screen. Truly powerful
This really deserves to win the Oscar for Best International Feature and be nominated in even more categories. Cinematography is out of this world. Also, it has the power to win Best Original Score or actually a potential contender for Best Picture!
Growing up in the military life I always had a strange obsession with the history of warfare. I’ve read countless books and watched far too many shows and films depicting the horrors of war. As awful as it is and having seen what is has done to people I love, I find it so fascinating, I suppose because I have (fortunately) never experienced it myself. This had been my favorite book since high school and this film looks incredible and although I known I will undoubtedly cry, I can’t wait to watch this film.
I like how you said growing up in the military life you have a strange obsession with the history of warfare. I grew up in a fishing family so I too suffer from a strange obsession with fishing.
I think it's so important for me as a Pole to learn about WWI. We got our liberty back by the end of it so I never really gave a second thought how tragic it really was. Also, we focus on the WWII for obvious reasons. I am axcited to see this movie and I am in tears from just watching a trailer.
I will admit, I know Polish men served in the Imperial army in ww1 especially in the eastern front but I don't know a whole lot other than that. I should do some research into it
@@canadious6933 Poles served in both sides during ww1. Germany and Austria promised them their country back in exchange for joining the army and after that Russia did the same offer. Poles didn't give a fck which side will be victorious, they just wanted their independence back.
Hate to say that but the Germans behave badly towards civilian population in both WW1 and WW2. Almost incredible how a civilized nation could act in the most horrible and barbarian way imaginable, something reminiscent of a Genghis-Khan... I empatize with the young soldiers depicted by Remarque characters, but it's hard to forget history.
I’ve seen every war movie made after 1998 that you can think of, I’m having a tough time of thinking of a film that even comes close to how well this film depicts the horrors of World War One. It shows that the enemy wasn’t just a evil figure, he was a real human being. Best World War One film ever made hands down. BRAVO
@@MishaElRusito excuse me, who are you to tell me what my taste in movies is like??? Being rude especially on a platform like social media ain't gonna benefit you in any way, learn to be kind, if not then kindly shut up asseblief!!!
I know its a remake of the original and adaptation of the book but best war movie in a long time, maybe ever. Especially German sided ww1. Beautifully done, the shots are so extraordinary.
I don't know if the final product will be good but scenes like the one at 0:49 give me hope. This is perfect given the point of the book. A young soldier practically a kid seeing war for the first time and crying as shockwaves surround him.
its not, this movie is trying to do so many things at the same time that it doesnt make sense if you compare it to the book. the scene you marked is one of the few exeptions
@@Sahlokniir I'm glad it's the movie and not the book then, ya know, not many people read books now days, so we enjoy the movies more than comparing them like little pricky nerds.
@@FriedSheep69 Which is horribly sad. Books are extremely fun. But so are movies. I notice not a lot of kids enjoy reading unless its super minimal. depressing. kids just dont play rpg games like they used to I guess.
@@avavanpelt926 I love RPGs, I love exploring, chatting and learning about new stuff in games, ffs I learned more in AC than in school hahaha I use audible for books mostly but when people brag stuff in a movie is not the stuff in the book it becomes a cringy comparison, for me at least. I just enjoy everything I watch, even if it's not A tier.
Just saw this...And it left me speechless. I seldom cry but this film left me in tears... It depicts the misery and pointlessness of War perfectly. A true Masterpiece.
This is true horror. Not what the genre usually conjures up in film. There, you can remind yourself that it’s just a movie. But this, this hell happened. There was a Paul in those trenches-and a Kat, and a Franz. These men lived and died. Their bravery, whether two minutes or two years was no less valuable. To endure such a crippling nightmare in any capacity is unimaginable. I was stunned beyond tears seeing this film. It will stay with me for a long time.
The Storm of Steel by Urnst Junger is the first account of a German solider from WWI that was translated into English and is brilliant. The final act is unbelievable. If you saw it in a movie - you would laugh and think it a ridiculous Hollywood absurdity. Yet it happened. I can’t wait to see this.
Smithsonian Magazine finally admitted the flu killed many in the trenches too. My friend Alfred was 105 he was in a US black regiment and the Paris parade, he told me "I hate war". I look forward to the film, the book was powerful. The 10 years prior with art nouveau was so beautiful, have we really made any progress except for antibiotics? Cheers.
I never got around to reading the book as a kid, but as soon as I heard about this production I bought it right away. I'm halfway through. It's extraordinarily written. Powerful stuff.
In Canada when my grandfather first started work it was at the point where most of the men near retirement were WW1 veterans, not just Canadians but many Germans who immigrated to Canada after the war. He was told never to talk to them about the war, as the only ones they would talk about it with was each other.
Watch the making of All Quiet on the Western Front: ua-cam.com/video/3qP0Z04UrJY/v-deo.html
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Kids playing bf1 at 9 years thinking ww1 was a great adventure
If there were laws that a soldier's minimum age will be 30 years old and have had a previous minimum net income of $100K/yr. ...there would be no war....nobody to fight it.
@@bbranett2188 Biden/Zelensky...murderers.
World War 1 was probably the most depressing war to fight in. Being stuck in trenches for months, thousands dying for just yards and losing gained ground from counterattacks,and fighting and dying on mud.
That was not my grandfather's experience. He fought through the wheat fields of northeastern France in 1918 in the Allied counteroffensive almost constantly on the move.
World War 2 is worse because you scared as soldier and as civil people
@@tomas2818 no
@@SpaceTravel1776 yeah 1914 and 1918 were very different from the 1915-1917 grind
Don't forget the mustard gas and other chemical weapons and the deadly deasses like cholera.
Published in 1928, the book was an immediate global bestseller, translated into 28 languages. Almost every WW1 veteran read the book and everyone knew that this was his story, regardless of whether he was German, British, French, American or Russian.
It's an absolute must read for anyone remotely interested in WW1 history and literature.
And one of the books burned by the Nazis
@@alexh8388 Which book ? The name plz.
The name of the movie is name of the book too👍
funny how you include the Americans. the ottomans and bulgarians had more participation than the americans did in world war one.
@@lxDastanxl The Nazis absolutely did burn this book and branded Remarque as a coward who they felt sapped the German war spirit needed for the coming conflict.
I love that this story is told from the German pov. They were also young boys sent to fight without knowing the hell they were being sent into
They have literally invaded sovereign countries.
Alas children are often used as cannon fodder.
It’s not just the German POV. It’s the human POV.
The book is pretty much an autobiography of the author's experience on the western front, just with some names changed. So of course it would be from the German point of view, it was a German who wrote it.
@@edelgyn2699 well, not just that. From an Australian perspective, we had just become 'Federated' (not independent though) and the men of Australia were so excited about going overseas on an "adventure", not really understanding what war really was. So much so that despite the enlistment age being 16, many young boys as young as 12 actually lied about their age & disappeared from home only to be writing to their families on the front lines. They freely went themselves. We now call them 'the lost generation'. as those poor boys who did survive came home utterly broken.
I'm French, but I always said that the Germans need more movies about the war too. Everyone suffered and deserves recognition
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I liked fly boys because I love Jean Reno 😂 but yes I do like films like Der rote Baron Das boot all quit on the western front. Generation war. Stalingrad 1993. America needs to stop overshadowing ww2 and stop saying they are the reason for all success in the world. Fk off. 😂 Hence why I love Europeans and British More.
In Germany, soldiers from the past did not receive any honors or even names after the fact. Especially not from WWII, since they were all fascists and Nazis. Everything is prevented from young people from taking something like this as a role model. Politicians are paying very close attention to this.
War films are reviewed and evaluated very critically in Germany. Even All Quiet on the Western Front has been titled as the worst war movie of all time by some film critics.
However, I find it outstanding and absolutely worth seeing. Even if it's hard to bear.
It's hardly 'dying to defend' when you are on the offense... 🙄
@@miramoche8901Don't talk. Die for your country. Have fun.
I haven't been this excited about a Netflix original in a long time. All Quiet on the Western Front is one of my all-time favorite novels, I re-read it every year or two. Beautifully haunting.
@John I meant beautiful in the sense that the ability of the author to accurately capture the horror of WWI and the loss that the young soldiers felt not only in terms of losing friends but also in the ability to live a normal life since many joined before they establish a family, a career, or roots to come back to. "The war has ruined us for everything. He is right. We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer..." So while the subject matter is haunting, the author's writing style captured that horror in a beautiful way.
Except its a remake.
The original came out in the 1930's and used real german veterans as background actors.
Hey good thing it's not an original, words have meaning.
It is an amazing book, one of my favourite written ever. If it's well done I can see this film being an all time favourite.
@@durnaxe8708 You're right, I meant to say a Netflix film, not original.
The scenes of the bloodied uniforms being laundered then sewn rang hauntingly true. It feels like you are literally sent back in time.
I think it's a sequence of the type of "the ordinary day", I found it effective at setting the bar for later scenes, one when the protagonist is handed the uniform, and later after the barrage when he gets told "everyday is the same" or something like that
That feels normal to me.
As a dressmaker that loves history I love that the girl knew how to actually work the machine. Not at all am important detail in the overall movie but I appreciated it
This is easily the best thing Netflix has ever produced. One of the most haunting movies I've ever seen. Just unbelievable.
That's not saying much.
@@truereaper4572 have you watched the movie?
and disturbing when you realize that one day maybe that will be us
Nexflix didn't make the movie smh
Agreed.
I'm so glad this film is in german and German films are getting more recognition. It scared more to the core and made me appreciate what and all I have. I don't need to risk my life. I can be free.
we abuot to get into ww3 real soon, thats why all these war films are coming out
@@ChieftainHawke you think so? I don't understand could you please explain more?
Yeah.. speaking of war, did you know the news about what's happening in Gaza? It's been plastered in news everywhere, the reality is that, it's a genocide happening in Gaza. And blockade, the amount of children dead.. almost 15k dead. I'm not exaggerating it's just horrible.
2.3 million displaced and more under the rubble.. it really doesn't matter who wins it's just.. the lives were killed for no reason, civilians, widows..
Made me cry multiple times. It communicates its ideals very clearly. War is fought between the young and naive and waged by the old and bitter with no heroes to be found here. It‘s been a few years since I read the novel but this made me want to read it again.
Totally agree. The old makes dumb decisions and the young must die for their stupidity. Does this sound fair to you?
@@jonfreeman9682 oh yes! it's exactly what i've been saying! thank you so much for saying it! love and respect brother
You put it beautifully!
@@jonfreeman9682 maybe the young should grow up then and stop being naive
@@KingdomRepublic Well that's what a lot of them did. They deserted the war. Even now many Russians left to avoid joining a war against Ukraine as they don't believe in it. This is why you need term limits so you don't have dinosaurs stay in power forever.
I watched this movie in one go. I didn’t allow myself to feel any outward emotions till it was over. I sat in my living room for about 1 hour just thinking about the movie, life, the lives of them and the soldiers that died. I also thought about what they would want me to do with my life to maybe have some closure.
I decided to ask my friend to grab dinner. We must cherish the people in our lives while we can. Great movie. One of the best I have seen.
It means you are a great man. Yeah we are all standing on the shoulders of giants.
same my depression was wiped away
You seem like a great human being
Yes I had a similar reaction after turning it off. Just kind of sat there in the dark for a few minutes and paid attention to my world. Amazing flick. Very powerful.
Must read the book
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Just finished watching this film and came back here to say that this is a masterpiece. I cried twice during this.
Same! I cried so much when (spoilers below)
Kat and Paul died also when Paul stabbed the French soldier and saw his wife and child I cried so much.
Came here to say the same but I didn’t cry 😭 coz I’m a double hard bastard
I really didn't appreciate them killing off characters that weren't meant to die in the book
I find myself in the same situation, at least we can find some comfort here in this comment section, and not behind enemy trenches :c
me too- i rarely cry from movies but this got me twice
This deserves to win the Oscar for Best Picture. Only if you show the real horrors of war, you can convince people that peace is always better. So don't be depressed after watching this movie, since you know the more people watch this movie, the more peace supporters will be in this world. We are all human beings, no matter where we come from. We should not have war between us, because we are all the same. Human beings.
International film feature and cinematography are locked maybe screenplay
@@walkerdaw6 and best makeup and hairstyling
How do we watch this without paying Nexflix
@@aspartam_ yeah
@@walkerdaw6IT WON INTERNATIONAL FILM!!!
Just finished this movie. I'm going to say it. Credit where credit is due Netflix. This is one of the best and most realistic modern war movie I have ever seen. It even rivales the likes of Saving Private Ryan in my opinion. Seeing the war from the German pov was such a good breath of fresh air. This movie is a modern masterpiece
It's better
Because you're mentioning Saving Private Ryan, I want to recommend watching Come and See (1985) by Elem Klimov. It's probably the best anti-war films of all time.
Watch beast of no nation next
this is the "Saving Private Ryan" version of WW 1
I agree. There are not a lot of war movies showing their side, most of them just showing the US to be superior and the good guys. This one gives a much appreciated nuance on the whole situation. You almost feel sorry for soldiers thinking they could all have been good pals and shared a beer together had it not been for the war. They are all suffering and paying because of the stupidity and ego of old men. They wouldn't even join their men but talk big about sacrifice and glory... Ugh
*I'm glad WWI is getting more and more recognition, especially showing the German perspective, both sides suffered the brutality of trench warfare, both of them were young adults that witnessed hell!!*
Sure people blame german due to 2nd world war image forgetting French cooked it up with astonishingly harsh & humiliating terms of the "traité de Versailles" (and yeap i'm French).
1st world war was a "battle of ego", & over pushed patriotism, fear (England feared what Germany could become), revenge (for the French who take the chance to take Alsace & Loraine back...)
None of those have anything to do with the starting point of the war.
To me WWI is what war is. For in war there is no victors, only dead and survivors, the rest is propaganda.
What come out victorious in wars is ideas... and most of the time not the one you wish to promote, and a lot of them are like snakes in your boots.
@@sortilien2099 most of the blame actually falls on the countries that escalated the Balkan Crisis. (Austria Hungary and Russia).
I wouldn’t really blame France for it.
Literally can’t watch this because it’s German pov
@@farsleyafcgoalkeepingcoach8080 Why?
@@Jose.AFT.Saddul Indeed, only Russia could have transformed the Austrian-Serb dispute into a World War ...
In a world of endless re-makes and re-imagined films, this film above others needs to be re-told for every generation.
So true, war is Hell
@@DanielGervais
My brother was a door gunner in Vietnam. He faced the Viet Cong storming the fences at Da Nang airfield during the Tet Offensive. He was wounded twice and received two Bronze Stars and two Purple Hearts. Afterward, while in the hospital. a request came for any ambulatory patients to help with clean up at the Catholic orphanage. He had helped the nuns and played with the children during his free time. He loved little kids. He was six foot five and had a goofy smile. The kids called him Người khổng lồ vui tính (The funny giant).
He thought he was going to help clean up wreckage and assist the nuns. When the Deuce and a Half pulled up to the scene, Danny was handed body bags. For the next day, he gathered pieces of the children and nuns. The dead were placed in body bags and then buried en masse in the Catholic Cemetary.
After his two tours in Vietnam, he returned to us. Once while we were watching a movie one of the characters said; "War is hell." Danny got up with tears in his eyes and as he left the room he said in an emotional voice said: "I prefer hell!"
For almost five decades, the faces of the dead haunted his dreams.
My brother was euthanized by the VA in 2017 after fracturing a femur while under their "care."
Yeah this least dosent feel forced or cashcrab movie for long time
that's what they want you to believe
@Normal Guy 2022 Storm of Steel has no message and, frankly, had to be revised multiple times to tone down Jünger’s boldfaced nationalism in the face of any reason or critical thought. He was a good soldier, but not one with much of a conscience. We don’t need stories like his. They don’t do us any good. We need the ones that remind us why war is waste. Not a teenage boy’s idea of “valor” without agency, which Jünger never seemed to grow past.
Bravery without agency just makes you a sword for other men to wield and dispose of, and usually evil ones.
This has to be the Greatest war film of all times..
This tells that there are no heroes but only victims in war..
Heart wrenching.
What an experience this was!
My grandfather fought in the trenches in WW1. He had just finished college when he was called up, he was due to a get a job in engineering but after fighting in the war, he decided to become a doctor. He had said that he felt helpless when his comrades got injured and died on the battlefield so he dedicated the rest of his life to helping others who were injured or ill. Unfortunately he didn‘t get to live as long as he wanted since he was exposed to mustard gas. Because he became a doctor, he knew how he‘d die. He‘d died 5 decades after fighting. Its really nice to see films and books about WW1, WW2 wasn‘t the only brutal war. An entire generation was lost and forever changed because of WW1.
If he died 5 decades after fighting, doesn't that make him around 70? Isn't that extremely impressive for his context?
@@zachrabaznaz7687 he breathed some of the gas in before he could get his gas make on. He got sick then but recovered but it did damage his lungs. His health wasn’t the same afterwards. Many soldiers die years or even decades after battle from injuries they sustained, it’s not unusual.
@@zachrabaznaz7687 🤦🏻♂️
Your grandfather is a hero
Without WWI happening or finishing the way it did, the factors leading to the rise of totalitarianism and the events leading to WWII would have never happened. That war was a colossal tragedy over one nation that provoked a war by issuing an ultimatum that no country would have accepted to a country whose radicals assassinated the heir to the other nation's throne. When that heir was down in a historical city of that people to celebrate a humiliating victory over such people. So both sides were in the wrong. That incident escalated tensions to the point where that minor regional conflict escalated, plunging the whole world into an unstoppable maelstrom of death and destruction. That war should be looked at more and more in history in the US, Britain, and Europe because it has a more substantial impact. Because that war created the Nazis, it empowered the Bolsheviks to take over Russia and implement a Communist regime, making the Blackshirts that took over Italy. That conflict set up the rest of the 20th century because of one Gavrilo Princip assassinating Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand and his wife. Pretty remarkable how one average joe could do a drastic act and commit the world to war when a major war had not gripped Europe since Napoleon Bonaparte over a century prior.
My great grandfather, a 17 years old German kid, fought in the Somme and in Reims short before the Armistice. He was badly injured but survived. His story has given me strength in the most difficult moments of my life.
Every kid today should listen, read, watch these stories.
It was an unjust war and a petty squabble between Kings and statesmen. It is not a war that was just.
Slava me balls in yer mouff buddeh
my great grandfather also fought in the somme
Nah. You Listen to your stupid grandpa dip shit. We dont want to go to war.
"A history of central banking and the enslavement of mankind" is the num 1 book to read
Just finished watching the movie and it is probably the best movie I have watched this year. It really shows how the young and innocent are sacrificed for an old man's ego.
"War is a Racket" -by GENERAL Smedley Butler
Summed up perfectly!
You should watch sardar udham an indian movie i bet you wont regret
Well put. Putin's ego is currently being saved at expense of thousands of lives.
Amen to that.
Just finished this movie a few minutes ago. This is probably one of the most gut-wrenching and heartbreaking films I have ever viewed in my entire life. Bravo to the actors, they did an amazing job and I truly felt ever string of pain and emptiness they portrayed. This was such a depressing movie, I’m not sure I can watch anything like it ever again.
All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the most incredible, depressing, thought-provoking WW1 movies I’ve ever watched. It perfectly captures the senselessness and tragedy of war. The film doesn’t romanticise the battles. It is honest in its portrayal. Both sides are depicted as possessing brutality and humanity because that was the reality of the war. Young men were sent into a meat grinder by their superiors for a few kilometres of farmland, their innocence stolen. If you haven’t already, please find the time to watch this masterpiece.
Movie is trash.
and biden/nuland/vanderleyen want this for you and your sons.......... lol
@@theroldan8675 facts. while the diapered disaster can’t even walk up stairs.
@@Ahahahhaaahyour moms Pusey was 😂
@@theroldan8675 This is by far the dumbest comment I've seen today. The movie is a human reiteration on world war 1 from 1917. the only political meaning behind this is to deviate all ages from war by showing its honest, brutal truth.
Definitely the best war movie this year. I was literally shedding tears after finishing the movie, rip to those who sacrifice their lives in this war
Best of the past decade easily. Maybe even 2 decades. Thank God Americans didn't entirely make it.
Watch the 1979 one it’s amazing free on UA-cam lol
@@replynotificationsdisabled if American made this movie at lease you can understand the movie
@@replynotificationsdisabled thats not even possible. Which movies are u comparing it to ???
Hands down the best war movie ever made. And ive seen almost every war movie in the past 40 years. Only ones that come close are hamburger hill saving pvt ryan black hawk down and outpost and siege of jadotville
I'm just happy, at last a soldier in WW movies, spoke in their native language.
Edit: thank you for all the recommendations. Of course I do realise that many movies have done this before. I was referring to a joke made by Hugh Dennis on Mock the Week about a scene in war movies, where a German soldier quipped "why are we speaking English?"
Saving private ryan says hello.
Well it‘s a german movie
Das Boot
You must not watch a lot of movies then
That's always been a thing it's called English or German movies, even in British films made during Ww11 they would include Dutch speakers to portray Dutch civilians
Despite how advanced a history class may be, nothing compares to these cinematography skills which portray World War I in the most easy to understand and immersive way ever. Props to them!
My great great uncle was a British rifleman. He was brought into the trenches with the wave of volunteers which finished their training just before the Somme. He was killed in a charge on the 2nd of July, 1916, the second day of the battle. He has no known grave. Even today my grandfather drops in mood when talking about the way his father spoke of him. What that war took from us as a species cannot be forgotten. I recommend anybody to do a battlefield tour of some ww1 sites and memorials, especially the Ypres Salient. Rest in Peace Frank Irish and all others who have died in war 🌹.
Well said! Cheers to the heroes!
Your gpa is over 100?
Your uncle was on wrong side than maybe
@@makdoomhasnaingillani843 well considering the British won.....obviously not
@@stevenscrewmeverse2285 yep
My Grandpa was in WW1. He came back a shell of his former self. He had what is today called "PTSD" for the rest of his life (passed away at 77yo). When I was a child we played war games with his helmet, gas mask and bayonet. He was always very kind to me. He had uncontrolable shaking that wasnt Parkinson's. I still see his face like it was yesterday.
What a beautiful story ❤️
I know he's still smiling at you David.
May he rest in peace
@@lyannaschwimmer869 im really sorry but i fail to find "beauty" in david's story. I wish their grandfather never had to endure such trauma :(
@@leo-rs3cjhe won’t rest in peace Until we stand collectively as the only living words breathing gods who walk this precious earth and see that Everyone has a fair piece, the Only way to Peace for all.
Where no one any longer starves. A Real heaven/having for all where we make this the best it can be to.
A worthy place to reincarnate again
I'm french, my families lost 5 parents at the battles of La Marne & Verdun during this awful war.
I watched this movie and I felt depressed by thinking of all of the people who died on both sides.
It is still hard to believe that happened. Respect to the fallen ones.
the frenach are turncoats never forget
@@stormcrowgucci8776 T es anglais ou americain ? tu peux me dire ou s est deroulé la premiere guerre mondiale ? sur ton pays ? Toujours si facile de critiquer quand on a aucune frontière terrestre avec un autre pays hein surtout a cette epoque.
Merci Lou, ma famille aussi a connu la guerre, mon grand pere s est engagé a 16 ans et avait fait les deux guerres mondiales, il faisait parti des commandos qui allaient derriere les lignes allemandes pendant la première guerre mondial et a recu plusieurs fois la legion d'honneur... , le commentaire de storm et en general de ceux qui critiquent la france sali leur memoire.
@@stormcrowgucci8776 idiot
@@uncle7215 lumbago
This should win the Oscar for Best Cinematography!
So immersive, overwhelming.
Reality of War -- on your face.
Applause to the makers. 👏👏👏
And it did!
When I was in Middle School I had to do a book report on the book in 8th Grade. I also watched the 1979 film. It was an incredible film and this new version looks just as incredible. Hell, they include French St. Charmond tanks. That's the equivalent of seeing a unicorn for tank enthusiasts.
10th grade for me with the book, never watched the movie after reading the book/
yea im kinda a tank entusiast, I played war thunder and went the museum in bovington but I never even saw that tank lol
Ayy I did that in 9th
I've never seen the '79 film, but the 1930 film is astounding, highly recommend it. Should probably read the book, now that I think about it.
@@danielchu1539 they had tv then? lol
I just saw the movie in a German theater. One of the most immersive experiences ever. You can almost feel the mud and smell the trenches. The cinematography is absolutely incredible. The acting is also genuinely great. I usually cringe when I see German actors.. it often looks unnatural to me, but absolutely not in this movie. There are some decisions in the story arc that I am not too happy about and that deviate from the book, but overall it is a fantastic movie.
I have seen many German movies and TV series. They have very fine, highly-trained actors and I don't find their acting 'unnatural' at all.
wie kann man denn netflix filme im kino schauen ?
@@MTMF.london hes probably german himself thats why hes saying that ;) there are some good german productions out there, for example DARK
@@TheJD75099 steht doch am Ende vom Trailer sogar dass der Film im Kino läuft
@@TheJD75099 Der kam sehr begrenzt für ein paar Tage in einigen Kinos.
I’m a Flemish archaeologist and UXO detector in Belgium and France. It gives me chills every time I step on no man’s land. Like death is still present in everything
goeie job man kan ik me direct voorstellen respect
Oh wow, never knew there were Flemish archaeologists who are also UFO detectors in Belgium and France.... crazy!
@@dredwick sorry to break it to you, no UFO’s 😅. Only unexploded ordnance or UXO for short. Or the alternative name: CTE, common & toxic explosives
@@dredwick UXO - unexploded ordnance.
Obusios? Stop machien, en allemaale weg.
I remember reading this book in high school. It was chilling from beginning to end. It is slightly based on the author’s experiences as a soldier in World War I, and it got to the point where the Nazis started going after him and his family due to the book’s anti-war message.
My great grandfather was a German soldier during WW1 and his journals depicted how horrible it was as a 17 year old boy. My dad said this book was his favorite because of how accurate it was
Have these journals been printed? If they're available, I'd love to read them. If not, enjoy the privilege of access to your grandfather's memoir.
Please tell us about them
your great grandfather is da real man. 17 years old nowadays are weak compare your great grandfather's 17 years old.
Respect to your family sir.
Germans are a mighty people, abs often demonised.
They are a honourable people.
@@syamsul6063 my gramps fought in ww2 with 17. He was an alcholic afterwards. He saw some horribel shit. He was at the east front and a war prisoner after the war. My father had a lot to suffer from him, but can we really blame him? He was damaged after this war....
I hope they get an Oscar for this, it was overwhelming.
It will
It got 9 nominations
@@walkerdaw6 Not sure. Oscars love war movies that glorify US war victories. They are not too keen on the enemy's point of view.
@@MTMF.london but cinematography and and international film feature are locks
@@walkerdaw6 May be for cinematography but another film called "Argentina, 1985" is more catnip to Oscar voting members. Its story about a couple of prosecutors attempting to bring to trial the heads of the military dictatorship in Argentina for their part in the atrocities committed across the country in the 1980s is deemed more Oscar-worthy. It had already won a slew of awards and also the Golden Globe which Oscars usually follow.
I read this as a freshman in high school, and it was the first time I really understood that just because one side wins and another loses doesn't mean the soldiers on the other side were monsters. They were all just human. Obeying orders, like those on the winning side. It was a harsh but necessary lesson for me. I am grateful to this author, and the people who lived through that hell. The black and white film with Lew Ayers was pretty damn good as well. This looks like all the good faith efforts have been made. I am ...excited is the wrong word, but I am readying myself to witness this tale and remember these brave souls again.
I read this in 10th grade and it forever changed my perspective on war. I knew it was bad and traumatizing before, of course, but I did not comprehend the depths of a soldier’s experience until I read this book. It remains one of the best books I read during high school.
@@SweetflyRachel if anything the British and mainly French were responsible for WWII, the treaty of Versailles would be unimaginable today
Still there are monsters in wars.
@@johnwidman6089 Can you explain further what you mean by that?
@@aus-li I think he’s saying that their treatment of Germany after WW1 led to the creation of the Nazi’s
Congrats to all involved with the making of this film. And congrats to you, the majority of the commenters, who overwhelmingly agreed that war is awful, that there aren't winners, that the young are often exploited by the governments who have an agenda and that we need peace. This movie is perhaps the most brutal movie I have ever seen. I felt gut punched and my eyes hurt from tears, connecting with the fallen youth of the enemy. It didn't win the big prize tonight but it got its recognition. One of the most important movies I've ever seen. Thank you to all who made this happen ...filmmakers, please continue to make important works like this for real world change.
I cried and went silent the whole movie. One of the best and most realistic ww1 movies ever.
I'm dreaming of home.
I hope these fallen soldiers have found the calm, rest and peace they deserve.
You're home now.
they dead niba
@@blackaaangenaam7840he means spiritually ya sped
They will be at peace if The Almighty forgave their sins. If they were covered by the sacred blood.
@@haydenthomas_LoveYWH allah akbar brother
@@haydenthomas_LoveYWH 😂
My great great grandfather fought at the somme. He was lucky to survive and come home, but the war took a heavy toll on him. He didn't reach his 40th birthday before complications from the war took him (stress had shaved decades off his life, and gas exposure weakened his lungs) Rest In Peace Nathan Simons, rifleman, father, and husband 🕊
I remember visiting the Somme crater in France. Even though it’s covered by grass and flowers, it’s still sobering to think how much explosive power was behind something that could create a crater that deep, and the psychological trauma that soldiers had to go through, fearing that they might step on a mine just like that
May he rest peacefully. The somme was one hell of a battle, and the fact that he survived shows, in my opinion, how strong he was.
The Brit’s suffered 20,000 dead in one day at the Somme. Americans suffered about 3,000 dead on D-Day
It has a similar feel to “come and see”.
Rip and thanks so much for you service 🧡
I finished reading the book a few weeks ago and I have to say it was the most tragic and profound story I’ve ever read. It paints such vivid and terrifying images in my mind that no other book has done. Hearing the screams of wounded horses tangled in their own spilt intestines until they are put down. Feeling the bleak and dreary grey of the lorries. And finally the dark sky of the front lit up with bright red and green flares and star shells. God that book really paints insanely vivid images that I’ve been illustrating my own interpretations recently.
Erich Maria Remarque is in a very special category when it comes to depicting the tragedy of human condition. Try reading "The Triumph Arc" and "Three Friends". The sense of dread is always palpable, even when there seem to be streaks of light on any given page. Watching the world tear itself apart now is so shocking as someone who was a child when we moved to the U.S. from former USSR. People will never learn.
That's why I feel like the trailer isn't capturing that at all, it somewhat epic, while this whole book was slow and gray tragedy. Maybe it's adaptation won't be that good at all
Read "The Forgotten Soldier" by Guy Sajer
@@Dostav I really hope the movie represents the physiological aspects of the book. Because to me one of the best parts was seeing how their entire worldview changes, and how it affects them mentally. As someone diagnosed with ptsd myself(not from anything near as horrible as this tho) it really hit home with the part where Paul goes on leave. It’s like after you’ve seen some shit you really can never see things the same again, like losing all innocence. The book is a slow, and for the most part monotonous and depressing ride, but that’s what made it such a great story, it didn’t sugercoat anything and didn’t pull any punches.
That's what we went through to create NATO. Think about it the next time you vote.
i had tears in my eyes during the whole movie duration. Had to think off my Great Grandfather, who somehow survived 3 years on the western front. As a Grenadier.
We need these movies to continue to be made and for people to watch them so that we all learn that humanity has to avoid war at this scale at all cost forevermore.
Yes, the romantization of war lately by edgy kids shows how little they actually know about what being in a war actually feels like
As long as the US military industrial complex runs foreign policy for profit, there will always be wars and proxy wars. forever. no meeting of minds can occur when ultimate hegemony is always sought by the current most powerful military complex.
It's not the ordinary people who create and wage war. It's the powerful people.
Unless it's the US citizens against a tyrannical US government.
You know, just a few glimps at real war gives more than enough realization that wars should be avoided.
After seeing this movie I understand why ww veterans should have the massive respect they get. Im a 19 years old sitting at my couch and i cant even imagine what this dudes went through.
Whee did u see the movie
@@Ilya-d2c yesterday
Imagine surviving this and coming home, I'll be traumatized forever, rip to those who sacrifice their lives in this gruesome and pointless war
@@andrew4388 pointless ? Most of the countries has pretty good reason to go to war at that time sadly. And many countries wanted this war. Even without the balkan... My country France would have declared war anyways.
@@squirrel287 going to war with good reasons doesn't justify the fact that you should
My grandfather, who fought in WW2, only spoke about his experience once. The only thing he ever said was “There should never be another war”.
And yet look at the world right now everyone is having conflicts and nobody wants peace ww3 is feeling ever so closer
Say this to putler.
I'm from Ukraine and we have it worse now than in this movie, people are dying because of Russian fascism
@@Rroma81N lmao, are you 12? As much as Ukraine suffers, they are NOT suffering as bad as people suffered during WW1.
@@Rroma81N people are dying because the actor who plays your prime minister is a puppet of the US
The Cinematography, the acting and the sound and i love how it makes my heart not skip a bit, can't imagine being in a situation like that. The masterpiece!
I dont know why when i see this movie i feel scared that we will doing this again in WW3. I think this is not just a movie but remember to all man to get ready
As the child born and raised in USSR I was amazed when I came across this book because it was so weird to read a story from a German perspective (also a Time to live and a time to die). I think that was a first time I realized that behind "enemy" in every war there are people
P.S.
My grand grandfather fought in WWI on Eastern front. 30th Siberian regiment. Was hospitalised with scurvy. His name was Mitrophan Yermakov
P.P.S.
This reply section is a train wreck😂
"Through the Maelstrom" by Boris Gorbachevsky. It's an incredible view of the 2nd world war through the eyes of a Soviet soldier.
And at the same time, in the 21st century, the Russian occupiers will destroy the Ukrainian people
Вечная память твоему деду!
These stories show that wars are the most ugly thing to be ever faced by mankind.
cool idc lil bro
I don’t think there’s a limit to how much one can talk about WWI. There are just so many stories and accounts that are important and interesting that it makes sense for all the books, shows, and movies about it. I look forward to this new movie!
It’s a movie lmao
Your limit is over
Most people who fought in WWI were either injured or killed.
Also great to see new perspectives. I wish the Eastern front could get the same love, so many interesting tales that people know little about.
YAYYYYY no liberal pc garbage. Woohoo!
Saw this movie in limited run early this month. Was incredible, teared up, one of the most devastating war films of all time. It will stay with you for long after the credits roll.
1917 really haunted me for at least a week after I watched it. I couldn't stop thinking about it. Really a beautiful film, but yeah, just haunting. I've heard the book this movie is based on is quite haunting as well.
ok thats good, I have been craving for some more ww1 films after I watched 1917
Watch the original movie, it will be way more powerful than this new 1. the 1930 version.
Great, Ill pass. Enough to deal with now.
@@djdeep4 Not so sure about that one bud. This one definitely pulls no punches.
This is probably the best world war movie I've ever seen in my entire life.
A truly heart-breaking story! I watched it on the big screen and this was a breathtaking experience. Haven't seen such a powerful German movie in a while. I truly feel that this does the novel justice.
💔💖💗
i watched the original a few days ago. most terrifying movie i’ve ever watched, not because of its shock factor but because of how it will stick with me and change my views of war for the rest of my life.
War.....war never changes.
k now go watch Come and See (1985)
You don´t mean "the original" rather the first film adaptation. The original remains the book.
Which movie
If you really want to mess yourself to, watch threads.
God Rest the 20million soldiers and civilians that were lost in this tragic conflict ❤️
The frame that said this at the end is what really got me
I thought it was more around 40 million people that lost their lives in WW1? And WW2 I think is around 70 million.
@@AFGsultanZ how many do you think this WW3 will have?
@Leymonzzz thank you for correcting me.
@@xXEYSPENXx oh God knows, I’m not even sure myself. If that was to happen, you can expect it to be at least 90M. Well I think that’d be the case. But I have no idea what that may look like exactly. Just hope that won’t happen at all.
Coming back after it’s multiple wins tonight at the oscars. I’m so grateful, it’s such a great movie and so well done, i don’t understand the sudden hate for it because of all the wins. i was nervous it wouldn’t win because this doesn’t glorify america in any way but now, i’m so happy. please, everyone watch this.
sure
"Old men declare war. But it is the young who must fight and die." -Herbert Hoover
😔
So true .
If young men could declare war there would be a lot more wars lol
Gay
А кто ещё должен сражаться, за свою страну и её интересы? Именно что молодые
War is an industry.
one of the most heart-wrenching books I've ever read, I just know I'm gonna cry so much watching this
Hi, may i know the book title this movie about?
@@hendripriyambowo1427 is the same of the movie =) All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nicht Neues)
please can you tell me how good was the book?
@@marklanger7965 read it junior year of high school… it’s a very grim and sad book, but it’s extremely accurate to the experience of WWI. I thought it was a really good tragic tale
@@willmungas8964 same, had to do a book report on it. really ruined softmore year lol.
My Great Grandfather fought at the Somme in WW1, his survival story is one still sticks with me years after hearing it.
When he was injured he was carried off to an aid station, to get there him and his comrades would have to walk down a country road, my great grandfather told the men carrying him to put him down because he only hold them back and put them in danger, so they lay him in a bank at the side of the dirt road gave him some ammunition and some cigarettes and carried on without him.
He stayed there up until he could hear a horse and cart coming up the road, so he dug himself in and aimed his rifle down the road thinking it was Germans coming toward him, as the cart come into view he recognised the man on the cart, it was one of his mates from his home town in Exmouth, Devon UK, he was then put on the cart and taken back to an aid station which he was then later bandaged up and sent home.
Still to this day I find it a truly amazing story.
Thanks for sharing this
@@usaf2011 no problem, these stories need to be told.
G'd is good.
Very similar to a story Roger Waters told in Amused to the Death
Gosh, it’s a small world after all!
I just watched this movie tonight. Literally the whole time I was like, "Damn, what did I just watch?!" Everytime I saw someone getting killed brutally. My heart hurts knowing this once happened in real life back then. No one deserve it. This is definitely a great movie. The delivery is top match, almost gave me a ptsd 😭 11/10
My grandfather fought in the trenches in France; i often think about him as a young man going through that experience. He came home with his lungs damaged and died too early.
that's so sad man.
True hero❤
same story with my 2x great-grandfather. your grandfather sounds awesome
You’ll also be fighting in the trenches in the near future.
@@asakurayoh3909 calm tf down😂😂
We had to watch this in history class and I will say, the whole class was in tears. This has to rank my top 3 of favorite war movies due to how accurate and greatly made it was
I love how it shows the naivety turn to horror as they realize what they signed up for, genuinely such a good film.
I'm a history teacher - just curious, did your teacher have to show you an edited version? Did you have to sign permission slips or did they just show it? Glad you enjoyed - sounds like you have a great teacher!
@@davidr3359 We did indeed have to sign slips, and the teacher had to get permission from the district office, (she mentioned it to us) and other than that it was all we had to do
@Jk Georgia U.S
Lol bunch of betas
Can we also appreciate the amazing score? The soundtrack underlined the horrors of war perfectly.
I experienced this movie at the Toronto International Film Festival and DEFINITELY recommend people watch it. It’s a difficult watch at times with how gut-wrenching and visceral some scenes are but it’s a movie I won’t forget anytime soon for it’s strong messages about the realities of war.
I also experienced it. I was in tears at the end of the movie and couldn't talk for all the evening. It was truly a hard movie to watch but necessary to understand how pointless and cruel the war is.
Too many ppl nowadays glorified nationalism and patriotic rhetorics. It's like they don't fear war.
It is not a new movie or story.
who asked
@@niiceamazingfun7 For you to be an asshole? Not sure to be honest.
To all the souls that got tricked and forced into the wars, a solemn salute of respect.
@@the98themperoroftheholybri33 yeah just like I wasn’t tricked into fighting in Iraq because they had “weapons of mass destruction”
@@the98themperoroftheholybri33 Thanks for your hot take. /s
Most people went to fight ww1 because they felt they needed too, for they’re country, and they wanted adventure. Obviously it wasn’t what they expected
Paronax does have a point.... a point that should be part of the movie and definitely was in the two previous ones.
The old movies depict very well, how the combination of patriotism, propaganda, peer pressure and having no clue what the war was really like made the boys recruited right in the class-room volunteer to go into "glorious battle" only to find themselves stuck in a quagmire beyond their worst nightmares. The coloured one even had one of the soldiers returning for a brief vacation and calling out the recruiters to their faces, only for the young boys to call him a coward because they've been so indoctrinated and high on patriotism (I don't remember if the black-and-white had that scene too... it's been so long since I've seen that).
Though naturally there was one group that was definitely not tricked into serving: Conscripts.
And that's why I really don't like the direction this trailer is showing. It's all epic and spectacular, but that's not what the old movies were about (I haven't read the book, so I can't comment on that). Also the old ones were all about the soldiers in the trechnes from the persepctive of a specific boy, not the high command and officers.
@L’IMMORTEL The soldiers don't know, though.
Just finished watching it today. It's unforgiving.
WW1 always hits me the most. Probably because it always makes me think of my great-grandfather and about everything he must have been through. Born in 1892 in the 'Harz Gebirge' (Harz-mountains) in central Germany, he was one of the unfortunate sons send to the Western-Front. After taking shrapnel from a nearby artillery shell, he was taken to a field hospital where they patched him up. After he recovered they saw him fit enough to be send back to the Western-Front, but he himself had other plans... In the middle of the night he smashed the locks of a prison cell containing a Belgium prisoner he befriended and they both took the leap of faith and fled towards the neutral Netherlands, this was still however miles and miles away from the Western-Front. Supossedly according to my grandfather they miraciously found an old rowboat in the water eventually (it makes you re-evaluate your opinion on fate).
They must have labeled him a deserter, a 'Feigling' as the Germans would've called it. I'd say it takes guts to do what he did, the man was a survivor and even till this day it brings tears to my eyes thinking about it, the fact that his blood runs through my veins.
His name was ~ Gustav Hermann Otto Ameling.
WOW what a story. A movie must be made about it.
@@javasrevenge7121
The followup story is more tragic though. My great grandfather settled in the Netherlands and married in 1921, but basically being a war refugee meant that he had to start everything up from scratch. This also meant that he didn't have the money to neutralise his Nationality, something that would come back to haunt him when the Nazis would annex the Netherlands during WW2.
During WW2 the Nazis came to his house and took his two oldest sons, because my great-grandfather was still technically of German nationality... He attempted to escape war, but war wasn't finished with him yet... His oldest son Friedrich (Freek in Dutch) died in France, mangled beyond recognition by a fighter plane's machine gun. His second oldest was send to the Eastern front and never came back when the war ended.
My grandfather was 17 in 1945 and in the first stages of recruitment when the war ended, considering WW2 was in it's last stage, it's almost certain that he would have been send to the Battle of Berlin or something similar, meaning almost certain dead. The war ended just in time for my grandfather.
My great-grandfather himself was too old for active service, however being a German in occupied Holland meant that he had privileges, one of them being that he was allowed to walk the streets during evening curfews, which he used to warn adresses with Jewish families in hiding. After the war that all didn't matter much though, there was a huge anti-German sentiment and he was German after all... so they robbed him of his tractor and farming equipment, leaving him to start back up from scratch yet again.
My great-grandfather died in 1952 at the age of 60. The piece of shrapnel he took during WW1 was travelling through his body and punctured his organs. Around 1955 the second oldest son showed up at home, rags of cloth bound around his feet and almost unrecognizable. He was finally released from Soviet prison. He was an alcoholic for the remainder of his life.
@@Noahboy8 Holy smokes what a tragedy, thank god we've had peace the last 70 years, that is way too much for one person to go through
@@harrypot1781 Agree! We should all feel lucky peace is lasting this long for us.
@Aurelian
"Stay and fight" for a hopeless cause. The western front was the most pointless front in human history. 5 million young men between 13 and 30 years old died for 200 meters/yards of terrain gain in only 4 years. That's like wiping out the entire population of a country like Denmark in just 4 years time.
Is it bravery to fight in a battle where people's heads are smashed in like eggshells, burned to a crisp by flamethrowers and are just simply killed by the thousands on a daily basis?
I believe bravery is to rise against adversity, to do something despite the odds and despite fear of repercussions in order to gain something greater, usually a greater good. When a war/battle gains absolutely utterly nothing other than an early grave, can we then speak of a greater good? When it renounces the whole concept of bravery, the only viable act of bravery left is saving your own soul in order to survive.
Besides my great-grandfather already nearly died by shrapnel from a grenade/artillery shell and almost certainly already witnessed lots of his brothers perish. It's not like he fled on the first day he arrived there.
The lead actor Felix Kammerer is phenomenal in the film considering this is this first film. Hope he gets recognition.
my great grandfather fought in ww1,first in Gallipoli and then on the western front, he was seriously injured in gas attack. he made it home but my grandmother said he was plagued by nightmares and severe coughing fits. he died young only 43 years old, can't imagine what horrors he witnessed. R.I.P to all those poor souls and Lest we forget 🇦🇺
Respect to your grandfather and the often forgotten Anzac troups
stop bullshitting lad
@@greekterr0ru-i13 many thanks
Our ANZACs doing us proud.cant say it better than that .
He was an ANZAC soldier?
Masterpiece is one of the two words that come out to me. The other one is speechless. Not that we have nothing to say about it. This movie is as good and powerfull as it also is shocking and depressing. One of the best I have ever seen. Any war is useless unless you fight for freedom.
"Any war is useless unless you fight for freedom." the problem is that this sentence can mean anything, can justify any war, some people think they fight in a good war, some other no, and what is freedom? Like what war was useful ?
No we should think of why did those wars happens, what triggered them, what did they do, who wanted those wars
If there is a war in your country, what would you do today? Fight? run?
@@Dhieen You are right on your thoughts and I agree with you. But... Freedom is the right to speak, the right to move, its when you have no fear, but you have to respect the freedom of the one by your side. Is the right to love any god or none, to be white, brown, yellow or black. The right to be Hetero, homo, bi or whatever. The right to be comunist, liberal or capitalist. Freedom brings responsabiltiy. If we dont have these rights, what do we have?
Pretty sure every war is a fight for freedom as one side will be looking to fend off the territorial aggression of the invader. “Fighting for freedom” is really just a narrative.😂😂
@@randomcon123 Cant agree with you for obvious reasons... Freedom starts on human rights. If you have it, you are probably a free person. If you dont have it, you might be seen as a animal or a slave or something that can be wasted just because... For me, its simple as that.
@@ebalona yes, freedom itself is a intrinsec good, but "to fight for freedom" is almost always your country telling you how the enemy is a threat to your freedom, while they are told the same about you
The movie is absolutely fantastic, some of the sequences from the book have been changed, but the overall artistic adaptation very much preserves the core of what made it so amazing. It is absolutely worth watching even if you haven't read the book. It's pretty depressing, but that's what war is - there are no redeeming qualities to it, it always messes you up in one way or another.
Nice are you speaking to us from the future?
@@kevinoconnell2297 actually this is a remake of a 1930 movie same name.... It was good
@@kevinoconnell2297 "In select theaters October and in Netflix October 28th" it's October. He definitely watched in a theater.
Movie's not out yet mate
@@johnny_tapia imagine commenting before reading others replies
My boyfriend and I watched this a while ago together, it’s one of the first times I’ve ever seen him cry over a film. It’s so so good
One of the most memorable books I read when I was in high school. It still holds a place on my bookshelf, even 20 years later.
what is the book name?
@@codercoder7270 same title as the show
I read it a couple of years ago and most of the time I had chills while reading it... One of my most favorite books ever. I think I am going to bawl my eyes out watching the movie
@@damnyougotthewholesquadlau821 thanks
even in my experience. I read when I was at high school, and started my history passion
That book is a masterpiece, you as reader, you are literal in his body on the battlefield. It feels so real what he has experienced. I am happy that the WW1 get more movies to not forget them
can't imagine what it is to be in a battle , especially a battle as horrible as those in WW1. Going to read this book
Yup, truly a masterpiece.
@@martijn2246 do it, you have to read it before you watch the movie. And use Battlefield 1 soundtrack while you read it. I did that because 6 years ago was that ww1 game released a masterpiece
Hmmm I might have to give this book a go 👍🏼
You literally aren't.
I remember reading a book about this in my sophomore year of high school… It’s truly heartbreaking to those people who lost their lives fighting, especially if they were barely an adult. Back then the motto was basically if you’re fit to fight, no matter if you’re 16 or 50 years old, they would draft you anyway. Can’t wait to watch this movie
Old rich men would send infants to fight and die in their pissing contests if they new it would mean they would win. And it still hasn’t change, Now Putin is drafting many Russian boys and men who shouldn’t be forced to fight. All for his ego.
I can't imagine what that book may have been called 🤔
@@baikal3925 LOL
Those men* who lost their lives fighting
If you really can't wait, then just watch one of the two already exisiting movies. Both are really good, though I expect people to gravitate toward the coloured one more than the really old black-and-white one.
Just finished watching. It's a masterpiece. I came in hearing nothing but good reviews, and I wasnt disappointed. If youre watching looking forward to "which side you'll bet for", wanting to see generals win and war cries of victory, this is the movie for you, because it needs to be realized that there's no true winners of war, atleast for the soldiers that fought them. I think, war is a defeat for mankind in itself. We need to humanize the millions of people that died, whether it's for "honor or false pride'.
Ich habe das Buch gelesen. Das war schmerzhaft genug. Aber ich bin froh, dass das Werk für alle Menschen, die lieber Filme schauen nochmal aufgearbeitet und bekannt gemacht wird. Es ist wirklich wichtig, dass das nicht in Vergessenheit gerät, was Krieg wirklich bedeutet.
Wir müssen immer bereit für Krieg sein
Too bad those who decide about wars are not the ones fighting in it
Die Filme werden wahrscheinlich fantastisch, ich mochte das Buch lesen, um ehrlich zu sein
@Claire Wolf - "I have read the book. That was painful enough. But I am glad that the work is being reworked and made known to all people who prefer to watch films. It's really important that we don't forget what war really means." For sure.
There’s a difference between a War with swords and Shields, and a War with Weapon Arsenal. The different experiences. One is just more destructive than the other. That’s all it is, giving the Warrior a harsher experience.
Both my Great Grandfathers served in the First World War and I actually got to meet one of them before he passed when I was 7. Was shot up by machine gun fire on his right forearm and had this huge scar …… scary stuff. I can’t wait to see this in honor of both of them. The trailer is giving me chills already.
Two of my great grandfathers also fought in WW1, for the Germans, although not German themselves. (Minority in Germany). Lots of respect for what they went through.
And btw you have four great grandfathers, not just two :)
That must have been fascinating! Sadly my great-great grandfather died fighting in WWI at Ypres.
Two of my great grandfathers also serve in WW1. One served on SU-103 and barely survived it when it was rammed by the Olympic. The other died in the fields of Verdun leaving his young wife and children.
My great grandfather was a military mail man got his foot shot off and was discharged never met him but my Great grandmother kept all of shoes had a single one for every day
@@Vlad-sj5yw Sorbs or Sinti?
I had to read this book in high school. After I finished it I immediately went to Barnes and noble to buy my own copy. It’s an incredible story and it was one of the first pieces of literature to make me cry. I’m excited to see it adapted for the screen.
amonggus!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Theres an older adaption if u want to watch it before this releases
1st released in 1930 then remade in 1979 and now a third release in 2022
There’s an original film from the 1930s actually created by WWI veterans to encapsulate the feelings of terror. I highly recommend.
This was one of the books we had to read for our german classes way back. I remember it absolutely breaking my heart - what a masterpiece this movie is. The Oscar nomination is well deserved
Incredibly powerful movie with an antiwar statement that hits me right where it should. I don't think I've seen anything close to this in a war movie since the intro to Saving Private Ryan. Those 3 ominous notes played by what I think is a horn choir gives me chills every time. This one has all that I want from a war film. Grittiness, despair, violence, bleakness, all that makes me appreciate what I have in life more. Those poor boys...
How about The Thin Red Line?
@@remus3391 Great one also, no doubt. Just not as memorable to me personally as Saving Private Ryan.
@El Bearsidente Not surprised. Not having read the book, I just have to view this as a war movie among other war movies. Maybe they should've called it something else. I do plan on reading the book at some point though.
Enemy at the gates is good too
Have you seen 1917? It's also about WW1 but from the English's pov.
No movie has ever made me tear up. The ending got me. It really did. What an amazing movie.
Snowflake
Is it all subtitles?
@xorphyn aka a woman's worn underwear
@@mason0006 There is an option for English commentary/voice over.
Horribly stupid ending
probably one of the best films i ever watched
My grandfather fought in WW2 on the Russian front and the Carpathians. He wrote a book about his experience, and the book is still unpublish. The original text is with me, and I plan to publish it one day. It is the heart-wrenching story of a dad (my grand grandfather) and his son (my grandfather), who fought on opposite sides, but both managed to survive and meet after the war.
Soviet *
I would love to read about his experiences.
I would love to read that book
@@shoelessbandit1581 wrong... This is during the USSR, soviet Union was created in 1922
Please publish it; far too many have no understanding of the horrors of the Great War and that we still live in the world that was shaped by it.
My Great Grandfather fought in the French 224th Infantry Regiment during the First World War. He was severely wounded on 8 September 1918 at the Aisne when he took shrapnel to the face and eye, partially blinding him. He was also cited for bravery in his army records and was awarded the military medal, war cross, and the legion of honour.
My father told me that on every armistice day, on November 11, my Great Grandfather would cry. The war broke him and made him a very serious man.
My Great Grand-Uncle on the other hand did not survive. Conscripted in January 1916 into the 99th Infantry Regiment, he saw combat at Verdun, Saint Quentin, and Chemin des Dames. He was killed in action on June 10, 1917 at Cerny-en-Lannois, Chemin des Dames.
All ww1 vets are dead what do you mean
Okay
@@methamphetamineaddict5217 When referring to his grandfather he is quite clearly using the past tense...
@@methamphetamineaddict5217 Yes, and I never met my Great Grandfather. I am saying that my dad recalled that my Great Grandfather would cry on every November 11th, but apart from that, he was a stern and serious man. The war made him that way.
My grandfather was a stretcher bearer in ww1 with his brother in the Seaforths . They both went out to bring back the injured and dead . His brother was shot dead , and my Grampa was shot in the arm .He still brought back his dead brother and an injured man . Never once talked about anything to do with the war ….poor Grampy xx
I highly recommend the 1930 film before seeing this one. It may be 92 years old but the film still holds up in many regards and is considered one of the earliest anti war films. A genuine classic.
Totally agree. Phenomenal movie. Watched it as a kid and wept a river at the end.
The made-for-TV one was on point too. Have seen them both, both are amazing.
Don't bother people, it's sh*t.
@@Jake-vh6jp no, it is not
I'm afraid the message from 1930 will get drowned in action-scenes in this one. The trailer reeks like it.
Damn. I had a little shock at 1:17. I have the exact same watch. It's from my great grandfather who was a teacher. He was a german soldier in WW2. I don't know much about him, but former students of him told me he was a strict, but good teacher.
SS? ☠️
He was paramedic or was playing in the company orchestra I presume.
@@HomareNishitani957 not every german soldier was apart of the ss.
When I was a kid in the 70's there was an old man lived across the alley who had been a German soldier. He was missing an eye and was always nice to the kids. It would be interesting to hear their stories but I was to young to have any concept.
@@HomareNishitani957 probably just Wehrmacht
The best book ever written on the WW I. Raw, cruel, beautiful. The real masterpiece, written by the master writer who wrote like no other. I cannot imagine the film could come even close to the beauty of this book.
This movie shook me to my core, it was so good! It was shot so amazingly and even though it's known that this is the war where tanks and flamethrowers were introduced and its understood how horrendous this was to humanity, I was just so shocked when I saw it on screen. Truly powerful
One of the best war films ever
This really deserves to win the Oscar for Best International Feature and be nominated in even more categories. Cinematography is out of this world. Also, it has the power to win Best Original Score or actually a potential contender for Best Picture!
it should be up for best picture and director let alone best international feature
Yes!
It just got nominated for 9 oscars :D
@@mikeclifford7525 Best Picture in Foreign Language
Damn! You got everything right.
Growing up in the military life I always had a strange obsession with the history of warfare. I’ve read countless books and watched far too many shows and films depicting the horrors of war. As awful as it is and having seen what is has done to people I love, I find it so fascinating, I suppose because I have (fortunately) never experienced it myself. This had been my favorite book since high school and this film looks incredible and although I known I will undoubtedly cry, I can’t wait to watch this film.
a lot of other people have a huge obsession with war, youre not special
@@rileybobbert6527 wow ur pretty cool “Riley”
I like how you said growing up in the military life you have a strange obsession with the history of warfare. I grew up in a fishing family so I too suffer from a strange obsession with fishing.
@@rileybobbert6527 douche
I can tell you’re an annoying ass person
I think it's so important for me as a Pole to learn about WWI. We got our liberty back by the end of it so I never really gave a second thought how tragic it really was. Also, we focus on the WWII for obvious reasons. I am axcited to see this movie and I am in tears from just watching a trailer.
I will admit, I know Polish men served in the Imperial army in ww1 especially in the eastern front but I don't know a whole lot other than that. I should do some research into it
"Obvious reasons"
Hahah I feel you on that, my Slavic brother.
Thanks to lil yachty fr, he brought the wock to poland
@@canadious6933 Poles served in both sides during ww1. Germany and Austria promised them their country back in exchange for joining the army and after that Russia did the same offer. Poles didn't give a fck which side will be victorious, they just wanted their independence back.
Hate to say that but the Germans behave badly towards civilian population in both WW1 and WW2. Almost incredible how a civilized nation could act in the most horrible and barbarian way imaginable, something reminiscent of a Genghis-Khan... I empatize with the young soldiers depicted by Remarque characters, but it's hard to forget history.
I really hope that this movie wins a lot of Oscars!
I’ve seen every war movie made after 1998 that you can think of, I’m having a tough time of thinking of a film that even comes close to how well this film depicts the horrors of World War One. It shows that the enemy wasn’t just a evil figure, he was a real human being. Best World War One film ever made hands down. BRAVO
Try "jorney's end"
No cap this movie is the best thing that I've ever watched 😭😭
@@artymsoja2883 then you have no taste in movies lol
@@MishaElRusito excuse me, who are you to tell me what my taste in movies is like???
Being rude especially on a platform like social media ain't gonna benefit you in any way, learn to be kind, if not then kindly shut up asseblief!!!
@@artymsoja2883 same
Unreal movie. Absolutely stunning and masterful. I hope Netflix does more like this. Bravo!
One of the best movies of the year. Can’t wait for everyone to see this.
Big fan sir from India 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
Hell yeah brother!🤘🏼🔥
I know its a remake of the original and adaptation of the book but best war movie in a long time, maybe ever. Especially German sided ww1. Beautifully done, the shots are so extraordinary.
I don't know if the final product will be good but scenes like the one at 0:49 give me hope. This is perfect given the point of the book. A young soldier practically a kid seeing war for the first time and crying as shockwaves surround him.
Battlefield 1 be like:
its not, this movie is trying to do so many things at the same time that it doesnt make sense if you compare it to the book. the scene you marked is one of the few exeptions
@@Sahlokniir I'm glad it's the movie and not the book then, ya know, not many people read books now days, so we enjoy the movies more than comparing them like little pricky nerds.
@@FriedSheep69 Which is horribly sad. Books are extremely fun. But so are movies. I notice not a lot of kids enjoy reading unless its super minimal. depressing. kids just dont play rpg games like they used to I guess.
@@avavanpelt926 I love RPGs, I love exploring, chatting and learning about new stuff in games, ffs I learned more in AC than in school hahaha I use audible for books mostly but when people brag stuff in a movie is not the stuff in the book it becomes a cringy comparison, for me at least. I just enjoy everything I watch, even if it's not A tier.
Just saw this...And it left me speechless. I seldom cry but this film left me in tears... It depicts the misery and pointlessness of War perfectly. A true Masterpiece.
This is true horror. Not what the genre usually conjures up in film. There, you can remind yourself that it’s just a movie. But this, this hell happened. There was a Paul in those trenches-and a Kat, and a Franz. These men lived and died. Their bravery, whether two minutes or two years was no less valuable. To endure such a crippling nightmare in any capacity is unimaginable. I was stunned beyond tears seeing this film. It will stay with me for a long time.
The Storm of Steel by Urnst Junger is the first account of a German solider from WWI that was translated into English and is brilliant. The final act is unbelievable. If you saw it in a movie - you would laugh and think it a ridiculous Hollywood absurdity. Yet it happened. I can’t wait to see this.
Smithsonian Magazine finally admitted the flu killed many in the trenches too. My friend Alfred was 105 he was in a US black regiment and the Paris parade, he told me "I hate war". I look forward to the film, the book was powerful. The 10 years prior with art nouveau was so beautiful, have we really made any progress except for antibiotics? Cheers.
Truth is much more outrageous than fiction. The amount of things I've seen in life that no one would believe, fictionalized, just blows my mind...
This is a great book. If i recall he was wounded 8 times and kept returning to the front. What a great bone chilling story
I’m currently reading that at the moment! Read some today at work on my break. Very very good book
I'm reading this book now.
I never got around to reading the book as a kid, but as soon as I heard about this production I bought it right away. I'm halfway through. It's extraordinarily written. Powerful stuff.
Should watch the original movie from 1930
In Canada when my grandfather first started work it was at the point where most of the men near retirement were WW1 veterans, not just Canadians but many Germans who immigrated to Canada after the war. He was told never to talk to them about the war, as the only ones they would talk about it with was each other.