‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Producer Sees Parallels With Young Russian Conscripts Sent to Ukraine as ‘Cannon Fodder’
thewrap.com.“These are big shoes for us to fill with our film. I don’t mean to compare our film to what some of our predecessors went through, but it is very moving to be even remotely connected to this history that “All Quiet” has,” Grunert told TheWrap. “We’ve managed to capture something that is obviously horrific, and we tried to come to what we can only imagine is an emotional truth of our main character, and how it could possibly feel to him,” Grunert said. “We are honored to be nominated for these awards, even though it is hard to feel joy about such tragic subject matter.
We just hope that it helps people to feel the terrible reality of war.”To portray this grim reality, the filmmakers had to really hustle to shoot the film in 52 days, in a drab abandoned airfield used in the second world war by the Soviet Union outside of Prague in the Czech Republic.
All this was done during the travel and social restrictions of the pandemic. The crew had to dig an elaborate maze of trenches, to represent the trench warfare of the World War 1 front.
The trenches in the war criss-crossed for a total of 25,000 miles, equal to the circumference of planet Earth.Paterson said she spent 10 months researching this trench warfare, so she could capture it realistically for the script.“I was worried about whether we could capture it on film.
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