LOS ANGELES, March 12 : Germany's 'All Quiet on the Western Front,' a World War One epic with nine Oscar nominations this year, won the Academy Award for best international film on Sunday.The Netflix Inc film, directed by Edward Berger, depicts the horrors of trench warfare through the eyes of a young man ini
LOS ANGELES, March 12 : Germany's"All Quiet on the Western Front," a World War One epic with nine Oscar nominations this year, won the Academy Award for best international film on Sunday.
"All Quiet on the Western Front" tells a story of a young man who, poisoned by right-wing political nationalist propaganda, goes to war thinking it's an adventure, and war is anything but an adventure," producer Malte Grunert said in his acceptance speech for best film at the BAFTA awards last month.
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