The film version won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1930. This book and its sequel, The Road Back, were banned and burned in Nazi Germany. It is published by Ballantine Books in 1929. The book sold 2.9 million copies in 50 languages in eighteen months. The day was so quiet that the field commander described the day as "all quiet on the Western Front." During this time, many of Baumer's classmates die.Īt the end of the novel, Baumer dies. The Americans have joined the war and are pushing back all of the ground that the Germans gained. The food is bad and the men must keep going to the bathroom. The meal is very good, but the pig meat sticks to their bowels and makes them go to the bathroom all night.Īs the war draws to its end in 1918, the Germans are suffering. They smoke cigarettes and drink coffee from the officer's dump and then roast the pigs. One night, Baumer and his friends find two live pigs. Baumer throws and breaks a bottle to make them shut the door. While there, the nurses sing a hymn, which annoys the men. This is so he can go into critical care with his friends. In there, when a nurse gives Baumer a temperature gauge, he uses a light and makes his temperature seem much higher than it really is. At the beginning, Baumer and his fellow soldiers are very full and satisfied because a very heavy bombardment killed off half of the company.Ī number of soldiers and Baumer are injured one night, and all are taken to the local hospital. Troops are changed every couple of weeks they are either sent to the front line or a few miles back. 'Nothing New in the West') is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit. It is about a German soldier named Paul Bäumer as he fights together with his classmates in World War I. If you read their post they read it as assigned reading in Germany. The history of any war is written by the winners, but that doesn't stop them being a tragedy for the poor grunts on the losing side as well.All Quiet on the Western Front (original German title: Im Westen nichts Neues, literally: "Nothing New on the Western Front") is a famous book by the German author Erich Maria Remarque. The battle scenes are appallingly visceral - possibly the best of their type since the opening of Saving Private Ryan.
It is, however, a message that needs to be repeated over and over again, until (maybe) enough people take it seriously. Nor is the film's anti-war message terribly new. It could be shown in Ukraine today, and soldiers on both sides would understand. The fact the the war depicted took place more than a hundred years ago doesn't make it any less relevant. This is a brutal and uncompromising study of the realities of war. Given the ending of the film (as opposed to the book) the title is somewhat misleading, but it's such a classic that the film-makers' decision is quite understandable. A few minor incidents from the novel are included, but Remarque's biggest contribution to this film is the title.
This is not strictly-speaking an adaption of Erich Maria Remarque's classic.
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