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On a subreddit dedicated to movies, the teaser trailer for the film was shared with u/TheBigIdiotSalami commenting, “English high school classes about to go hard in the paint for this one.” Poster u/SirHawrk replied, “You read all quiet on the western front in English class? Wouldn’t it make more sense to read it in German class?” Although the book was originally written in German and is from the same perspective, English-translated copies were also released (via Scholarly Editing). But there was also the original film with English dialogue, with u/Smucko pointing this out by adding, “I think he’s [original poster] referring to the movie, my English teacher played this to us at least twice lol.”
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Adolescence also seems to be a great time to discover the book since the soldiers depicted were young men and adolescents. When asked about his relationship with the novel, director Edward Berger stated in an interview, “I’d read it when I was 17 or so, somewhere there, then again somewhere in my early 20s, and then not for 20 years. And so, when Malte Grunert, the producer, called me, [it had been a while] but the book was so in me…” He then spoke about how important the work is to German identity and its nearly century of impact on young readers.
