‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Cinematographer Threw Himself into the Horror and the Beauty of World War I

When a freak snow flurry began dusting the set for “All Quiet on the Western Front” on a winter location shoot in the Czech Republic early last year, cinematographer James Friend knew he had to keep rolling. The epic Netflix adaptation of the 1929 war polemic by Erich Maria Remarque, directed by Edward Berger and starring Felix Kammerer as German soldier Paul Bäumer as a naïve volunteer thrown into the nightmare of endless trench warfare, screened in competition at the Camerimage Intl. Film Festival last week. “Filmmaking is a very organic process,” says Friend, “and even though we sat down… Read Full Article