Gari and Mel critique and compare both the 1930 and 2022 versions of All Quiet on the Western Front, the foundational anti-war drama that tells the story of a group of young German men, who, motivated by propaganda, join the army to fight in the harrowing trenches of World War 1. How does 92 years change the way we adapt such as classic story? And how effectively does each film depict the real history? Mel compares both movies to Erich Maria Remarque's original novel and provides fascinating historical insight into what it was like to really experience trench warfare. Gari then takes us behind the scenes into how you make a war movie in the safetly deprived 1930s, telling the story of how even a movie set could induce shellshock to the war veterans who visited it.
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