Interview: Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front)

By Conde Nast & Vanity Fair

Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

31/01/23·31m 2s

The German director on his film's historic nine Oscar nominations, the literal slogging through the mud required to make his World War I drama, and why he cast his lead actor, Felix Kammerer, because "he doesn't look like a hero."

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