ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Q&A | TIFF 2022

“The team behind ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT in conversation with TIFF in advance of its premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. This impassioned, visually arresting interpretation of the classic German anti-war novel makes the pacifist case to contemporary audiences through its depiction of the horrible madness of World War I and the tragedy of a doomed generation. The 47th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 8 to 18, 2022. For more, visit . Considered one of literature’s most honest and authentic depictions of war, Erich Maria Remarque’s renowned 1929 novel Im Westen nichts Neues was first adapted for the screen in Lewis Milestone’s Academy Award–winning 1930 film. Nearly a century later, Edward Berger has directed the first German interpretation of the story and it is a work of unquestionable power and urgency. It’s 1917 and wartime in Germany, as Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer) lies about his age so that he can enlist alongside his f