You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and these are Daniel Howitt's interviews,

with the star from All Quiet on the Western Front, Felix Kramer, his co-star and the executive producer

Daniel Wool, producer Malte Grunert, and composer Volker Bertelman.

Minister? All boy, ma'am. Burtleman. Meister.

Paul Bormner,

we're not going to

go to leave.

We're going to be.

Felix, Daniel, Malta, thank you so much for talking with me about one of the best movies of the year, All Quiet on the Western Front.

I want to start with Felix. You've been in theater for years, but this is your first ever film role.

And what a role to make your debut. You could have gone a little easier,

I feel like, just a simpler role. But this role is so extremely intense, physically and emotionally.

So when you got the call that, yes, you were getting this role, how did you start preparing

yourself for such an intense role? Oh, it was, um,

that was something because, you know, you get the phone call and they tell you, it was a conference

phone call with Malte and Edwards Berger, our director. And they called me to tell me I got the role.

And then I celebrated and then the celebration lasts for five seconds.

And then you realize, oh God, now I really have to do that.

And the pressure builds up.

And I started preparing, I prepared for about half a year and it was mostly physical training.

And on the other hand, I watched many films from that time from the beginning of the 20th century, watched pictures and listen to audio files from the time. But what really helped me most was

there is an archive online with a lot of letters from the front from the First World War.

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