Good movie but... not the same as the book Good movie but... not the same as the book.
The film is one of the best of the Great War that I have seen, even one of the best of war that I have ever seen! In addition to being the first version of All Quiet on the Western Front in German, with excellent German actors, it has that German spark of making war and political movies better than the American ones. If I hadn't read Erich Maria Remarque's book, I could put this movie a 10, however there are many points in the book that do not come out, and there are distortions in the story that make the movie lose value. For example, the chapter where he returns home on military leave and finds his home diminished, hungry, sick, reading this psychologically changes the story! In addition, the part where he has to spend time in a military hospital with his friend Albert is not told in the film, this was crucial in the book since it narrates in detail how bloody a field hospital can be.
But the movie is epic and exciting, it's worth going back and seeing again, I loved it.
Negative point for the scriptwriter.