All Quiet on the Western Front

2022 · Movies · 2h 27m · Drama, History

bleak

Major character dies

Downer ending

How it ends

Paul dies reaching for a butterfly, underscoring war's futility.

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Overview

Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.