Without news on the front, Netflix’s German film about the First World War directed by Edward Berger, nominated for nine Oscars this year, including best film, has finally won the Oscar for best international film in this edition of the Hollywood Awards. It has done so above all in relation to Argentina, 1985 by Ricardo Darín, which deals with the trials of the crimes of the dictatorship. It has also prevailed over the Irish The quiet girl, the Belgian gay drama Close and the Polish animalist EO.
The German film, which won one of the first Oscars at this year’s ceremony with the statuette for best cinematography for James Friend, portrays the endless massacre of the trench warfare that devastated Europe for years in the second decade of the 20th century, with millions of deaths to advance just a few meters, combats that Erich Maria Remarque portrayed in the homonymous novel to the film and that today resound painfully in the endless combats of the Ukrainian war in cities like Bakhmut.
Salma Hayek Pinault -so they have announced it- and Antonio Banderas have announced the winner and the director of the film, the German Edward Berger, has said that “this means so much to us, I have met so many friends in this film, I owe them everything” . “But the other day I ran into Florian Hoffmeister nominated by Tár, we are from the same city, we made the first film together 30 years ago”, he pointed out, pointing out that a circle is closed. “Thank you Netflix for supporting us, my wife, my children, these excellent actors and especially Felix Kammerer (the film’s protagonist). It is your first film and you have carried it on your shoulders as if it were nothing, without you it would not we’d be here, thank you, Felix.”
