At the Oscars, Edward Berger made film history with “Nothing New in the West”. The director has already set himself new goals.
After his Oscar for the best international film, director Edward Berger is dreaming of the big triumph – the Oscar for the best film. “We now have a goal: I want to have it. It would be stupid if we had already achieved everything,” Berger told the weekly newspaper “Die Zeit”.
Berger’s film adaptation of the novel “Nothing New in the West” was the first German film to be nominated in the top category – but the award went to the science fiction action film “Everything Everywhere All at Once” by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert on Monday night.
Berger’s anti-war film won a total of four trophies. When asked about the German perspective of the work, he said he couldn’t tell of heroism: “The Americans have a different story than the Germans, they liberated Europe from fascism. I’m talking from a perspective of guilt and shame – they was with me throughout the work on our film. I felt it as a child, I still feel that way.”
The film is based on the novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque and tells of the horrors of the First World War. (dpa)