All Quiet on the Western Front () is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I.

The 1929 English translation by Arthur Wesley Wheen gives the title as All Quiet on the Western Front.

When he finally dies at the end of the novel, the situation report from the frontline states, " All is Quiet on the Western Front ," symbolizing the cheapness of human life in war.

In June 2009, an announcement was made that All Quiet on the Western Front will be remade.

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In October, the studio lent him to Universal Pictures to conduct the screen tests and work as a dialogue director for All Quiet on the Western Front.

At the height of his popularity as a director, Whale directed The Road Back, a sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front, in 1937.

The sequel to Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, which Universal had filmed in 1930, the novel and film follow the lives of several young German men who have returned from the trenches of World War I and their struggles to re-integrate into society.

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Finally, the immensely traumatic nature of the experience dashed basic assumptions: realism seemed bankrupt when faced with the fundamentally fantastic nature of trench warfare, as exemplified by books such as Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1929 ).

His depictions of legless and disfigured veterans — a common sight on Berlin's streets in the 1920s — unveil the ugly side of war and illustrate their forgotten status within contemporary German society, a concept also developed in Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front.

Milestone was known for his previous anti-war films, including 1930's All Quiet on the Western Front and Shangganling ( The Battle of Sangkumryung Ridge or Triangle Hill ; 1956 ), which was the most influential film on the Chinese in that era.

Cross of Iron was reportedly a favorite of Orson Welles who said that after All Quiet on the Western Front it was the finest anti-war film he had ever seen.

With the sound era, films like All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ) ( and its much darker German counterpart Westfront 1918 ), Howard Hawks ' Road to Glory ( 1936 ) and Grand Illusion ( 1937 ), focused on the futility of war for non-American soldiers whilst Hollywood produced American soldiers featuring in World War I comedies such as Buster Keaton's Doughboys ( 1930 ) and Wheeler & Woolsey's Half Shot at Sunrise ( 1930 ), or exciting tales of the U. S. Marine Corps putting down rebellions in Central America, China, and the Pacific Islands in films like Frank Capra's Flight ( 1930 ), The Leathernecks Have Landed ( 1936 ) and Tell it to the Marines ( 1926 film ).

* Erich Maria Remarque – novelist ( All Quiet on the Western Front )

A major seller was All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.

* January 29 – All Quiet on the Western Front ( Im Westen nichts Neues ), by Erich Maria Remarque, is published in book form.

The film's critique of the romantic idealization of duty is comparable to that in the earlier film All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ), based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque.

He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights ( 1927 ) and All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ), both of which received Academy Awards for Best Director.

Milestone won his second Academy Award for All Quiet on the Western Front, a harrowing screen adaptation of the antiwar novel by Erich Maria Remarque.

Lewis Milestone's final request before he died in 1980 was for Universal Studios to restore All Quiet on the Western Front to its original length.

Erich Maria Remarque ( 22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970 ), born Erich Paul Remark, was a German author, best known for his novel All Quiet on the Western Front.

When he published All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque changed his middle name in memory of his mother and reverted to the earlier spelling of the family name to dissociate himself from his novel Die Traumbude.

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