classic masterpiece
"No War on the West Front" is a famous work by German writer Remake. After the publication, the work attracted widespread attention in China, with sales of up to 8 million copies and translated into 29 languages. Experts in the publishing industry praised it as "the greatest achievement of European books in ancient and modern times." In the novel, the protagonist Paul and his three classmates went to the battlefield by being deceived and promoted by "defending the motherland and defending the people". In the war they witnessed the cruelty and destruction of war, their heroism went bankrupt, their hearts changed, and they began to doubt, dislike, and even hate the war. The success of the
work is that it depicts the terrible life of the trenches with extraordinary reality and vividness: there are cannons roaring, the earth is shaking, flesh and blood are flying, and corpses are everywhere. The author describes it so vividly, mercilessly unveils the sacred and beautiful veil of this war and has a very distinctive anti-war theme.
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Remac (1898-1970) was born in Onarbrück, Germany. He enlisted in the army at the age of 18 and participated in World War I. He experienced many battles on the Western Front and was injured five times. After the war, he worked as a teacher, accountant, stonemason, journalist, editor, etc. After Hit came to power, he was persecuted. At the age of 39, he went into exile to the United States, became a US citizen at the age of 47, and later lived in the United States and Switzerland.
Remak's main works include: "No War on the West Front", "Return", "Three Partners", "Love Neighbors", "Arc de Triomphe", "Martian of Life", "The Age of Life and Death", "The Black Obelisk", "Night of Lisbon", and "Exile". Among them, "No War on the Western Front" is his masterpiece.
silver screen reappears
filmed based on the novel "No War on the West Front" by German writer Remake and produced by Universal Pictures in 1930. This film was hailed as "an excellent doctoral thesis" by film art master Eisenstein. He won the 3rd Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director. He ranked third among the 14 "Greatest American Films" selected by the Seattle World Expo in 1962, and is known as the world's greatest war feature film.
The video describes the experience of a German squadron soldier in World War I. At the beginning of the war, they volunteered to join the army with blind enthusiasm. But they died one after another. On the peaceful day when the War in 1918 was about to end, the last of them was shot and killed by French soldiers, while Germany's hastily reported that "there is no war on the Western Front."
film director faithfully and powerfully demonstrated the theme of the original work on the screen, and made a strong condemnation of the imperialist war. Because of this, when the film was released, the German-Nazi Party ordered a ban on the film, and the film was banned by Germany for 20 years.
Hero behind the scenes
Director Lewis Myers East won the 3rd Academy Award for Best Director for "No War on the West Front". Lewis Myerstung is a Russian-American director. He worked as an editor in his early years and later became a director. In 1927, he won the 1st Academy Award for Best Comedy Director for "The Deep Palace". "Front Page News", "Rats and People", and "Walking Under the Sun" are his masterpieces.
In this film, his narrative techniques are concise, and he carefully conceived and focused on rendering some important scenes. For example, at the end of the film, Paul was killed, and the scene was just a hand that was about to catch the butterfly, but gradually stopped moving in the voice-over of the gunshots. Then, the vision of the military cemetery and the scene of Paul and others starting from the town to join the army. This kind of artistic treatment that echoes the front and back is touching and has a timeless meaning, and has always been regarded as a classic scene treatment in the history of film.
