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“Blame the Game” is a Netflix romantic comedy starring Janina Uhse, Dennis Mojen, Stephan Luca, Taneshia Abt and Edin Hasanović. It is directed by Marco Petry.

Blame the Game

“Blame the Game” is a classic comedic film on Netflix, reminiscent in style to the refined Hollywood classics of Ernst Lubitsch or Frank Capra. This refined and elegant comedy adopts a traditional farcical formula, with most of the action happening on one stage and spanning a single night.

This film, with its simple script and straightforward characters, is sure to entertain those who appreciate a retro-style comedy imbued with a modern narrative thread. Although not uproariously funny, it certainly aims to appeal more to a family audience rather than those seeking outlandish situations.

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The story revolves around a man named Jan who meets a woman named Pia. One night, Jan finds himself thrust into Pia’s circle of friends,...

Confirming Germany’s importance as a growth market, Netfix on Wednesday announced 17 new and returning shows and movies produced by some of the country’s leading producers, including docuseries “Kaulitz & Kaulitz,” about the Tokio Hotel popstar siblings, and sci-fi drama “Cassandra,” about an overzealous electronic household helper.

Netflix presented 17 feature films, series, documentaries and reality shows at a special event in Berlin.

“We have seen again and again how local stories can captivate viewers here and around the world,” said Katja Hofem, Netflix’s VP of content for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. “We aim to continue this successful journey together with our partners, sharing a common goal of creating exceptional entertainment that moves and inspires people.”

Produced by Constantin Entertainment and premiering in June, “Kaulitz & Kaulitz” accompanies Tokio Hotel frontmen Bill and Tom Kaulitz, twin brothers from Magdeburg, Germany, on tour with their band and in their new home in Hollywood.

German actress Nina Hoss (Phoenix, Tár, Barbara) has signed on to star in The Other Side, an upcoming adventure thriller from German director Mariko Minoguchi.

Hoss will play Hanna, a doctor who, during the midst of an epidemic, goes into self-isolation in the mountain wilderness to protect herself and others.

Best known for her many collaborations with German director Christian Petzold —including 2007’s Yella, 2012’s Barbara and 2014’s Phoenix — Hoss played Cate Blanchett’s wife in Todd Field’s Oscar-nominated Tár (2022) and had a recurring role as Astrid in seasons 5 and 6 of Showtime’s Emmy-winning series Homeland and in Amazon’s action series Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan. More recently, Hoss co-starred in Claire Burger’s coming-of-age romantic drama Langue Étrangère, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last month, and in Radu Jude’s freewheeling feminist satire Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World, which...

“All Quiet on the Western Front” won a whopping seven awards at the 2023 British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs), including Best Film, and many are wondering how they can watch the gritty World War I drama.

Directed by Edward Berger, whom the British Academy named Best Director, the film is an adaptation of the 1929 novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.

A staple of many academic reading lists, the first English language adaptation of Remarque’s novel was made in 1930. The film netted Lewis Milestone his second Best Director Oscar and won Outstanding Production (later renamed Best Picture). A TV film adaptation was released in 1979 and was also lauded, winning the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Made for Television.

Berger’s 2022 version is in German and was released by Netflix. It is up for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best International Film. Here...

Stanislaus Katczinsky (Albrecht Schuch), Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer), and Tjaden Stackfleet (Edin Hasanovic) in Netflix’s ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’

All Quiet on the Western Front went into the 2023 Ee BAFTA Film Awards with 14 nominations, the most of any film, and emerged the year’s big winner. The brilliant adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s classic novel took home Best Film, Best Director (Edward Berger), Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Original Score, Sound, and Film Not in the English Language.

The Banshees of Inisherin scored four wins out of its 10 nominations, collecting acting wins for Barry Keoghan and Kerry Condon as well as Outstanding British Film and Original Screenplay honors. Elvis also took home four wins including Leading Actor (Austin Butler), Casting, Costume Design, and Make Up & Hair.

Austin Butler, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan, and Edward Berger earned their first BAFTA wins while Cate Blanchett picked up her fourth with...

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Warning! Spoilers for All Quiet on the Western Front! Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front is a hard-to-watch film that deals with a fictionalized account of real history that can leave plenty to explain. Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front ending explained the story of Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer), a young soldier who lies about his age to enlist during the final years of World War I (WWI). During his time fighting, Paul cycles between the western front and reserves while Matthais Erzberg (Daniel Brühl) tries to negotiate an armistice. Paul’s fall from a naive patriot to a jaded veteran in the face of a horrific war is as relevant today as it was when the book was first published in 1929. All Quiet on the Western Front's themes resonated with audiences, so much so, that the movie has been...

The All Quiet on the Western Front cast is just one of the elements contributing to the acclaimed for this Best Picture nominee. The Netflix film is based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque, which was previously adapted for film in 1930 to great acclaim. However, the 2022 version of the story is considered a new adaptation of Remarque’s book rather than a remake of the original film, making Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front a new, different experience. This new version has found its own staggering level of acclaim. Following its Golden Globe win for Best Foreign Language Film, All Quiet on the Western Front has been nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, a testament to the talents of the filmmakers and the cast.

All Quiet on the Western Front is an anti-war film, showing the realities of the war in...

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A return trip to Pandora and the soaring long-awaited sequel to Top Gun made the cut and earned spots on my Top 10 Films of 2022 list. So did the story of young adult cannibals finding love in Bones and All, and the twisted tale of a friendship gone south in writer/director Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin. Austin Butler’s extraordinary work channeling the King of Rock and Roll in Elvis deserved a spot, as did the powerful retelling of the murder of Emmett Till by white supremacists in director Chinonye Chukwu’s Till.

Everything Everywhere All at Once had everything necessary to make it into the top 10 of 2022 including sci-fi, action, comedy, drama, and a fabulous cast led by Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan. You couldn’t ask for a more entertaining murder mystery than what...

Welcome to a new edition of Pop Culture Imports for the month of October! Now granted, this month's column may not be quite as spooky themed as past October editions, but you could argue that it does give us a taste of different kinds of horror — from the erotic horrors of "Thirst" and "La Piscine," to the horrors of war in "All Quiet on the Western Front," to the horrors of having a chainsaw for a head. Don't say I don't give you variety.

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All Quiet On The Western Front – Netflix

Country: Germany

Genre: War drama

Director: Edward Berger

Cast: Daniel Brühl, Albrecht Schuch, Sebastian Hülk, Felix Kammerer, Aaron Hilmer, Edin Hasanovic, Devid Striesow.

"All Quiet on the Western Front" opens with the aftermath of a massacre, as a young man is killed in the name of a war he doesn't understand,...

Netflix has launched a new trailer for the upcoming German film ‘All Quiet on the Western Front.’

The film tells the story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Paul and his comrades experience first-hand how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as they fight for their lives, and each other, in the trenches.

Directed by Edward Berger, the movie is based on the world-renowned bestseller of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque. It stars Felix Kammerer (Paul Bäumer), Albrecht Schuch (Stanislaus ‘Kat’ Katczinsky), Aaron Hilmer (Albert Kropp), Moritz Klaus (Franz Müller), Edin Hasanovic (Tjaden Stackfleet), Adrian Grünewald (Ludwig Behm), with Thibault De Montalembert (General Ferdinand Foch), with Daniel Brühl (Matthias Erzberger), and Devid Striesow (General Friedrich).

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The film hits select cinemas and Netflix on October 28th.

All Quiet On The Western Front tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Paul and his comrades experience first-hand how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as they fight for their lives, and each other, in the trenches. The film from director Edward Berger is based on the world renowned bestseller of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.

The film sits at 93 on Rotten Tomatoes. See the trailer now.

The movie stars Daniel Brühl, Albrecht Schuch, Sebastian Hülk, Felix Kammerer, Aaron Hilmer, Edin Hasanovic and Devid Striesow.

Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2022, All Quiet On The Western Front is Germany’s submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.

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Netflix has just dropped a hauntingly powerful trailer for the new adaptation of the classic novel, All Quiet on the Western Front. The original novel was published in 1928 and written by Erich Maria Remarque. It told the story of a young German soldier’s brutal journey through the horrors of World War I. It was adapted into a film in the 1930s and then again as a TV movie with an all-star cast in 1979.

The official Netflix synopsis reads,

All Quiet on the Western Front tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Paul and his comrades experience first-hand how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as they fight for their lives, and each other, in the trenches. The film from director Edward Berger is based on the world renowned bestseller of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.

Netflix has dropped the "All Quiet on the Western Front" trailer — and it serves as a reminder that not all epic war films are made equally.

In this dad movie genre to conquer all dad movie genres, some manage to find meaning and poignancy amid all the senseless destruction -- recent movies like Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk" or Sam Mendes' "1917" immediately come to mind, with the latter in particular feeling so refreshing for being about preventing a large-scale battle as opposed to reveling in one. Others, however, can't help but get caught up in the spectacle and glory of it all, lionizing historical figures who aren't all that worthy of it in the first place or sending mixed messages about whether the horrific killing of thousands ought to be celebrated or mourned.

In that light, perhaps it makes sense to go back to one of the original touchstones of...

"My mother didn't want me to go to war. I wanted to show them I could do it." Netflix has debuted another main official trailer for All Quiet on the Western Front, a brand new German adaptation of the classic book about the atrocities of World War I. The film already opened in theaters in Germany and in the US a few weeks ago - and will be streaming on Netflix soon. A young German soldier's terrifying experiences and distress on the western front during World War I. He heads off with excitement and enthusiasm, only to be sent straight into hell. Based on Erich Maria Remarque's novel published in 1928. The book was famously originally adapted for the big screen in 1930 by director Lewis Milestone, and again by the UK in 1979 with director Delbert Mann. This new film is also Germany’s official submission for the 2023 Academy Awards. This one stars Felix Kammerer,...

Lewis Milestone’s 1930 classic All Quiet on the Western Front was based on the 1928 novel by Erich Maria Remarque and became the first adaptation of a book to win the Oscar for Best Picture, as well as the first Best Picture Oscar winner to also take Best Director. It has hardly been touched by filmmakers since then save for a TV movie remake by director Delbert Mann in 1979 that starred Richard Thomas. Now that has changed, and in a significant way, as the book has finally been taken on by Germany with director Edward Berger’s adaptation that finally shows us the perspective from the German side. It has already been selected as the German entry for the 95th Oscars’ International Feature Film race, and just had its world premiere Monday at the Toronto Film Festival.

This Netflix film, which will also have a theatrical run,...

Director Edward Berger and producer Malte Grunert are set to follow up their new adaption of Erich Maria Remarque’s harrowing war novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” with a much more upbeat work, a remake of the rollicking 1967 French-Italian pic “The Last Adventure,” which starred Alain Delon, Lino Ventura and Joanna Shimkus.

Grunert and Berger had been working on the remake and were already in development when “All Quiet on the Western Front,” which makes its world premiere at the Toronto fest Sept. 12, came along.

They are now planning to return to the project after Berger finishes his next pic, the Vatican-set thriller “Conclave,” based on the Robert Harris novel and set to star Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow, Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini. Berger goes into prep on “Conclave” in October in Rome, with production scheduled to start in January.

Directed by Robert Enrico, “The Last Adventure” follows...

All Quiet on the Western Front Trailer — Edward Berger‘s All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) teaser trailer has been released by Netflix. The All Quiet on the Western Front trailer stars Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer, Moritz Klaus, Edin Hasanovic, Adrian Grünewald, Thibault De Montalembert, Daniel Brühl, and Devid Striesow. Crew Edward [...]

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All Quiet on the Western Front will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, but Netflix has finally released the first teaser trailer for the World War I drama.

Based on the world renowned bestselling novel by Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front tells the “gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Paul and his comrades experience first-hand how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as they fight for their lives, and each other, in the trenches.” Beautiful, haunting, and horrifying, the teaser trailer for this latest incarnation of All Quiet on the Western Front looks mighty impressive. The first adaptation of Remarque’s novel hit theaters in 1930 and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The story was also adapted into a TV movie starring Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine,...

The teaser trailer for Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front opens with the declaration this story is “neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure for those who stand face to face with it.” Those words are lifted directly from Erich Maria Remarque’s classic novel and appear to signify how faithful this 2022 film adaptation will be to the source material.

That passage in Remarque’s novel continues: “It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war.”

Adapted by Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, and Ian Stokell, and directed by Berger, All Quiet on the Western Front will have its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival followed by an exclusive run at New York’s Paris Theater on October 7th. A limited...

The harrowing new trailer for “All Quiet on the Western Front” has been released ahead of the movie’s premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.

Netflix dropped the teaser for the flick, which is Germany’s official submission for the 2023 Academy Awards for the Best International Film category, before it gets shown at TIFF on September 12.

“All Quiet on the Western Front”. Credit: Netflix “All Quiet on the Western Front”. — Netflix

A caption on the clip states, “Death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it,” before the soldiers head to fight on the Western Front of World War I.

A synopsis reads, “‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I.

“Paul and his comrades experience first-hand how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and...

Author Erich Maria Remarque's novel "All Quiet On the Western Front" is undoubtedly a stone cold classic of the wartime genre, offering a gritty, zeroed in perspective on what it was like to be on the front lines during one of the most horrific wars in human history. Namely, World War I. The novel has been adapted several times but now, Netflix is bringing us a new adaptation from a whole new perspective.

This film represents the first time that it has ever been adapted in German, which should give the whole thing a new feeling and perspective. Let's have a look at what they've cooked up with this initial teaser, shall we?

All Quiet On The Western Front Gets A German Adaptation

The trailer kicks off by opening with some classic text from Remarque's book, setting the bleak and dreadful tone that casts a shadow over the story.

Netflix has debuted the trailer for the official Germany entry for the Best International Feature for the Oscars, ‘All Quiet on the Western Front.’

Based on the world-renowned bestseller of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque, the film tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Paul and his comrades experience first-hand how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as they fight for their lives, and each other, in the trenches.

Directed by Edward Berger, the film stars Felix Kammerer (Paul Bäumer), Albrecht Schuch (Stanislaus ‘Kat’ Katczinsky), Aaron Hilmer (Albert Kropp), Moritz Klaus (Franz Müller), Edin Hasanovic (Tjaden Stackfleet), Adrian Grünewald (Ludwig Behm), with Thibault De Montalembert (General Ferdinand Foch), with Daniel Brühl (Matthias Erzberger), and Devid Striesow (General Friedrich).

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The film has its world premiere at...

"Death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it." Netflix has revealed the first official teaser trailer for All Quiet on the Western Front, a brand new German adaptation of the classic novel about the atrocities of World War I. This new take on this story is described as another "anti-war" movie, which is befitting with the current war going on in Europe. A young German soldier's terrifying experiences and distress on the western front during World War I. Based on Erich Maria Remarque's novel published in 1928. The book was famously originally adapted for the big screen in 1930 by director Lewis Milestone, and again by the UK in 1979 with director Delbert Mann. This new version is also Germany’s official submission for the 2023 Academy Awards for the Best International Film category. The film's cast: Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer, Moritz Klaus, Edin Hasanovic,...

The Zurich Film Festival has unveiled the first seven titles from its Gala Premieres section, a showcase of some of the year’s hottest auteur films. The films include the star-studded drama “The Banshees of Inisherin” by Oscar-winning director Martin McDonagh, the European premiere of the German film adaptation “All Quiet on the Western Front,” directed by Edward Berger, and the world premieres of Sönke Wortmann’s “Der Nachname” and “Die Goldenen Jahre” by Barbara Kulcsar.

Artistic director Christian Jungen said: “In recent years, the Zurich Film Festival has established itself as a springboard into the awards season. Of the last 10 winners of the Oscar for Best Film, six screened at the festival. This year, we will again present international auteur films that will later play a role in the Oscar race to the more than 120,000 visitors and the 600 accredited media.”

The complete program of the festival will be published on Sept.

Filming is underway in Czech Republic, near Prague, on Netflix’s WWI feature All Quiet On The Western Front.

Edward Berger (Patrick Melrose) is directing the German-language version of the classic anti-war story. Producing is Malte Grunert of Amusement Park Film from a screenplay by Ian Stokell, Lesley Paterson and Berger. DoP is James Friend.

Cast is made up of Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Moritz Klaus, Aaron Hilmer, Edin Hasanovic, Daniel Brühl, Adrian Grünewald, Devid Striesow, Andreas Döhler, Sebastian Hülk, Alexander Schuster, Luc Feit, Michael Wittenborn, Michael Stange, André Marcon, Tobias Langhoff, Anton von Lucke u.v.a.

We first revealed the project last year. Netflix has today unveiled a first look at the production, which has been shooting since March.

One of the best-selling German novels of all time, Erich Maria Remarque’s poignant story follows three youngsters who voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervor,...

Berlinale Competition entries from two actors turned directors, Maria Schrader and Daniel Brühl, were among titles on the Beta Cinema slate at the European Film Market to prove popular among international distributors.

Schrader, an Emmy Award winner as the director of “Unorthodox,” premiered comic-tragic tale “I’m Your Man,” starring Dan Stevens (“Downton Abbey”), Maren Eggert and Sandra Hueller (“Toni Erdmann”), at the virtual market, and Eggert won the festival’s Silver Bear for leading performance. Brühl made his directorial debut with dark comedy “Next Door,” a chamber piece in which he starred alongside “Babylon Berlin’s” Peter Kurth.

“I’m Your Man” is leading the way with a flurry of sales to France (Haut et Court), Italy (Koch Media), Spain, Portugal and Latin America (Sun Distribution), Scandinavia (Edge Entertainment), Benelux (September Film), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Cis and Baltics (Volgafilm), Poland (Monolith), Hungary (Cirko Film), Czech Republic/Slovakia (Film Europe), former Yugoslavia (Discovery...

"Do we want to be sheep?" The Match Factory has released an official promo trailer for a German political thriller titled Je Suis Karl, which was recently announced for the upcoming Berlin Film Festival. The film is debuting in the Berlinale Specials section this March as a world premiere, fittingly because it takes place primarily in Berlin dealing with politics. Maxi, the survivor of a terrorist attack, joins the beguiling student Karl and becomes part of a European youth movement; one that aims for nothing less than seizing power. The film's cast features Luna Wedler, Jannis Niewöhner, Milan Peschel, Edin Hasanovic, Fleur Geffrier, Elizaveta Maximová, and Marlon Boess. It's hard to tell which side of the political battle this film is supporting – which might be the whole point anyway. At least from this footage, it seems like it might be saying these people are being radicalized. But maybe not? Compared...

Sales agent Beta Cinema is launching its Cannes Market slate, which is headlined by psychological thriller “Corvidae,” with a playful and novel approach. The company has produced an entertainment show, in the style of a late-night chatshow, featuring its sales team pitching its films and presenting exclusive clips from them. Variety has been given an exclusive sneak peek at the show before it goes live on Friday.

Beta Cinema CEO Dirk Schürhoff is the charismatic host of chatshow “The Beta Cinema Show,” filmed at the company’s offices in Oberhaching, near Munich, while Thorsten Ritter, exec VP acquisitions, sales and marketing, leads the house band on electric guitar. Its sales executives beam in their reports from around the world, while the kangaroo from the hit film “The Kangaroo Chronicles” assists. The tone is fun and tongue-in-cheek, but it’s a serious attempt to add a bit of showbiz pizzazz to the virtual market format.

The ceremony was conducted from a largely empty Berlin soundstage.

Nora Fingscheidt’s System Crasher was the big winner at this year’s German Film Awards which celebrated their 70th edition in a ceremony reflecting the new reality of the coronavirus pandemic.

Nominated in 10 categories, Fingscheidt’s debut feature took home statuettes for best film (the Lola in Gold), best screenplay, best direction, lead actor (to Albrecht Schuch), lead actress (to Helena Zengel), supporting actress (to Gabriela Maria Schmeide), editing and sound design.

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“System Crasher,” Nora Fingscheidt’s social drama about a troubled young girl, swept the 70th German Film Awards on Friday, winning a total of eight Lolas, including best film, director, actress and actor.

Forced to revamp this year’s ceremony due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the German Film Academy did away with its traditional gala event and instead produced a stripped-down show tailor-made for television that proved uniquely spontaneous, innovative and entertaining.

Hosted by actor Edin Hasanovic (“Skylines”), the show, broadcast live from Berlin and airing on Ard’s Das Erste, featured guest entertainers, actors and presenters in the studio as well as filmmakers, award winners and musicians taking part via video feed from their homes, including a musical performance by Gregory Porter from Los Angeles.

In addition to best film and director awards, “System Crasher” won Fingscheidt the screenplay Lola, best actress for Helena Zengel, supporting actress for...