By On Sunday evening the Oscar for Best International Film was, predictably, won by the outstanding German-language ‘All Quiet on the Front’. The film had already triumphed at the BAFTAs and looks set to pick up more gongs at the Oscars tonight.
In the Best International Film category, Edward Berger’s movie triumphed over ‘Argentina, 1985′, ‘Close’, ‘EO’ and ‘The Quiet Girl’.
‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ is an adaptation by Erich Maria Remarque that exposes the ordeals and anguish of a young German soldier on the Western Front during the First World War. A suspenseful and dramatic film, AQotWF takes viewers to the trenches and into the minds of those on the front line.
Everything you need to know about ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’
Original title: ‘All quiet on the front’
Year: 2022
Duration: 147 min
How to stream: Netflix
Genre: War, action and drama
Country: Germany
Directed by: Edward Berger
Screenplay: Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell, Edward Berger. Novel: Erich Maria Remarque
Music: Volker Bertelmann
Photography: James Friend
Cast: Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer, Moritz Klaus, Edin Hasanovic, Daniel Brühl, Sebastian Hülk, Adrian Grünewald, Devid Striesow, Thibault de Montalembert, Anton von Lucke, André Marcon, Michael Wittenborn, Andreas Döhler, Joe Weintraub, Luc Feit, Peter Sikorski, Michael Stange, Tobias Langhoff, Dominikus Weileder, and Alexander Schuster
Production companies: Co-production Germany-United States; Amusement Park Films, Rocket Science, Sliding Down Rainbows Entertainment
Oscar winners for Best International Film in the 21st century
| Movie | Country | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Drive My Car | Japan | 2022 |
| Another round | Denmark | 2021 |
| Parasites | South Korea | 2020 |
| Rome | Mexico | 2019 |
| A fantastic woman | Chili | 2018 |
| The client | Iran | 2017 |
| The son of Saul | Hungary | 2016 |
| Going | Poland | 2015 |
| The great beauty | Italy | 2014 |
| Love | Austria | 2013 |
| A separation | Iran | 2012 |
| In a better world | Denmark | 2011 |
| The secret of her eyes | Argentina | 2010 |
| Violins in the sky | Japan | 2009 |
| The Counterfeiters | Austria | 2008 |
| The lives of others | Germany | 2007 |
| Tsotsi | South Africa | 2006 |
| Into the Sea | Spain | 2005 |
| The barbarian invasions | Canada | 2004 |
| Somewhere in Africa | Germany | 2003 |
| No Man’s Land | bosnian | 2002 |
| Tiger and Dragon | taiwan | 2001 |
| All about my mother | Spain | 2000 |
