Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) influenced Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front)

Edward Berger's film adapts Erich Maria Remarque's novel about Paul Bäumer, a young German who volunteers for the First World War and is destroyed by the trenches. It is the first German-language adaptation, and adds a parallel story of the armistice negotiations that the book does not have.