aving cleaned up at the Baftas, All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the favourites to win best picture at the Oscars this month. That’s an exciting development for Edward Berger, who directed and co-wrote the film, but German critics may not be so thrilled. As Philip Oltermann noted in the Guardian, reviewers from Berger’s homeland have slated his first world war epic, with one key objection being that it strays so far from the source novel
