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All Quiet on the Western Front

Available: Friday 28 October

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TGenre: One-off drama he classic war novel gets a sweeping Netflix adaptation starring The Falcon and the Winter Soldier actor Daniel Brühl as real-life anti-war writer and politician Matthias Erzberger. The heartbreak­ing

German-language film follows teenager Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer) and his friends Albert (Aaron Hilmer) and Müller (Moritz Klaus), who are determined to do their duty and sign up to fight for Germany during World War One. But the young and naive soldiers soon come face to face with the horrors of life in the trenches and begin to realise the futility of war, as they’re forced to kill, experience starvation and see the bodies start piling up. Albrecht Schuch co-stars as Stanislaus.

 ?? ?? Front line… Paul Bäumer (right) in the trenches
Front line… Paul Bäumer (right) in the trenches

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