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How Volker Bertelmann Created the Scary, BAFTA-Winning Music for ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’

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When I moderated a screening with you and Edward and Daniel Bruhl, I said, “Your music scares the hell out of me,” and the audience applauded.

You must have known going into “All Quiet” that you needed something dark and foreboding and a little scary.Absolutely.

But when you talk about dark and foreboding, it can easily get into an area where it’s detached suddenly from the movie, because it’s maybe too much horror or too heavy in a way that it doesn’t fit the picture.

So it actually needs a very well-balanced way of creating horror. I think the horror in this case is not only the sound itself in the beginning, it’s also the surprise of how it comes in and the gaps between the times it comes back.

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