The spectacle of war from the German infantry side by Richard Jones

A look at All Quiet On the Western Front

When you look back at war films you’ve seen not too many are told from the enemy viewpoint.

Tora Tora Tora devotes a fair bit of time to the Japanese pilots and air crews responsible for the surprise 1941 bombing attack on the US fleet stationed at Pearl Harbour in Hawaii.

But it’s only partially about the Japanese military.

In director and co-writer Edward Berger’s World War 1 film I’m reviewing here everything is based around some of the young men in German infantry battalions stationed on the French front lines.

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