Netflix releases trailer for new adaptation of iconic anti-war novel All Quiet On The Western Front

Berger doesn’t seem to be holding back on the scale and horror of the story (or the scale of the horror), with wide shots of trench-filled battlefields and close-ups of sad-looking soldiers with their faces covered in mud, paired with the higher-ups in their fancy offices with their fancy uniforms. It’s on-the-nose anti-war imagery, sure, but this is the story for that. Sometimes you don’t necessarily need to get any more clever than “war is bad, look at all the ways that it’s bad.”

All Quiet On The Western Front is the first German film adaptation of the novel, and it will be the country’s submission for the Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards next year. (Which seems like a smart play, since the American adaptation won Oscars and the Academy loves an excuse to highlight Hollywood history, though it will have stiff competition.) All Quiet On The Western Front will be available on Netflix on October 28.