All Quiet on the Western Front wins best international feature film Oscar
by Andrew Pulver from on (#69QW5)
German language war epic triumphs in the category for non-English language films
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All Quiet on the Western Front has won the Oscar for best international feature film at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
The German-language first world war film is an adaptation of Erich Remarque's landmark 1928 novel; an earlier Hollywood adaptation, directed by Lewis Milestone, won the best picture Oscar in 1930. This version, directed by Edward Berger, stars Felix Kammerer as initially eager soldier Paul Baumer who is traumatised by life in the trenches.
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