ukrainian artists are fighting against the war in their country and for the preservation of their cultural identity. arts 21 next on dw. let some one else to the odd word, t v, highlights of selected for you. you every week in your a box. subscribe. now. german w, this award winning offer is available worldwide warning german has never been simpler german to go ah, we tried to make a film about our past about all responsibility in germany to what's our history. the terror of the, the 2 wars have cost in the world. and then suddenly it became also by the time we had finished the film about present the anti warfare all quiet on the western

front about world war one was awarded for oscars. perhaps also as a nod to the ongoing war in ukraine. i woke up like fi. i am in the morning from some anxiety and i heard exposures on the right for me. so i understood that the war has thought it. how do artists and culture survive war? her best international film, best original score, best cinematography and best production design. more oscars than any german production has ever won an adaptation of a famous german novel. the film reflects on the pointlessness afford oh, i love it and i did them

a lot of my dad. i mean it's not a new story. in fact, the netflix film for director edward baccha is the 3rd version of all quiet on the western front. following to american takes a 1979 t v movie from director dilbert, mann, and the 1930 classic by louis milestone. all think inspiration from the german novel, all quiet on the western front or investing knish noise by elisha maria remark published nearly a century ago. the books message on the senselessness of war has sadly lost none of its relevance to them as it gets really good. very good is that when the former was what he gave mister front and flung number's press, one of the books opening scenes shows young students being fired up by their jingle

mystic professor who indoctrinate them with propaganda. pushing them to sign up for the front of the sucrose starts once league and in hendern zohler gorski engine and i to my love why? oh, come gone one i think it feels like a universal message about young kids being manipulated by demagogues and populous and hate speech to sort of go with, you know, enthusiasm and in a sense and, and, and that full of youth to, to the front end to see that youth and that innocence being mangled up and being torn apart, being killed by, and their souls being killed. i think it's just sort of, this is for

a very emotional universal topic. the ongoing war and ukraine gives all quiet on the western front. the book and the films. a new poignancy. it's quite strange when you, when you're finished shooting a film and just a one and a half years later, you see, ah, pictures on the news that looked like the place where you're just coming from. at the same time, you feel very, very ah, ah con confirmed in what you did. because suddenly you realize we have to see this. we have to deal with this topic with war over and over again because it keeps returning i arish maria remark served in the trenches of world war one. he only saw 6 months of

combat but was wounded 5 times. recovering in a military hospital, he began writing about his experiences, adding stories from fellow soldiers, an invalid. the result was all quiet on the western front. looked at sir, take the book, tells the story of young how boy a 17 year old who gets drafted over all the enthusiastically and listens to go to war, just like how schoolmates? listen to the awesome for war with what made world war one say particular. how many young men 7 sees yesterday one wall creek, it's all war. memoirs were nothing new but remarks book was different. he been a reporter instead of romanticize in battle. he described the violence and death in the trenches with an almost clinical precision. this is in the written in a very matter of fact reserve times. there are a few passages, the terrific sentimental. what made it unique was this restrained?

didn't dramatize anything just described the horror of war from the perspective of a simple soldier. the book was an instance. success translate into more than 26 languages. it gave silent traumatized veterans a voice man with a chef. well, you have to remember, no one at the time was talking about the wall that the soldiers who came back didn't talk about and couldn't talk about it. i, it was someone who gave them a voice for d. and for those you, once in the war, it was the 1st time to count the 100 all quite on the western front, sold more than 2000000 copies its 1st 18 months imprint. hollywood said king calling louis milestone adopted the book for the screen, trying to emulate the brutal authenticity of remarks words in moving pictures. i the result was one of the 1st and most powerful depictions of war on screen

all quiet on the western front of the course, a groundbreaking work force, and it shows the ugly sense of war upon my particular, on the mass that's on the western front. so you can see that and get psyched, but milestone acknowledged the difficulty of making a pass of his film without making war seen exciting. and so you see the machine gun, and then in a reverse shot, you see the people that are being mo, down as though it was, the camera itself lowing the people down. he can't get out of this problem, which is to say that he has to stage the very drama that he's also trying to criticize it's a problem. every adaptation has faced how to make war seem as horrific as remarked, describes it without making the battles look too thrilling. if the camera work is

stunning, if the score is incredible and it all comes together with their wonderful actors, it can ah happened. and i saw it and a war movie start. this is sir. and it could tend to be an adventurous happening. you witness as a member of the audience? ah, and i thought we can do this. it is not possible to do an advertising clip, an advertising movie, that advertises wall. you can't do this now. for the 1st german film of all quiet on the western front. edward baccha and his team were determined to make war as an heroic, as possible. every detail of the movie, the grimy mud and cramped trenches, the discordant music and the gut wrenching violence, was designed to be unnerving,

brutal, and above all realistic. it was also very important to sort of to show violence that is identical, whether it happens to friend or full sort of in, in remarks novel and in our film. the death of an enemy is not a good thing, and the death of an enemy is not sort of less appalling than the death of a friend. that after watching this movie, i guess no one wants to go to war anymore. and that's the thing we wanted to

achieve. in 1930, the brutal battle scenes. the 1st film version had a similar fact paled and indictment of war. lewis milestones epic went on to win 2 oscars, including for best film. but in germany, right wing groups were on the rise. they saw remarks, book and milestones film as treason i know that i fish land in 1930 the nazis, but not yet empower the gerbils, who later became minister of propaganda organized, protest, soon flushed along fun. since they released mice and to cinemas, screening all quiet on the western front and the chemo, and 3 columns, wouldn't stink bomb give often. pollution talk of exerted political pressure. and

eventually got the film 1st sunset, and then bound altogether uncomfortable for me when the nazi sees power in 1900. $33.00, all quiet on the western front was one of the 1st books they banned and publicly burned denazi's hat. nazis didn't like that. the war was presented as a cruel events that destroyed people and cause i'm, as i stayed for that had nothing about the glory of war about the strong german germans. like everyone else shown us. we supposed to die like it wasn't a war glorifying book, and it wasn't a glorifying phone. showed the cruelty of all. and that's not what the nazis wanted . and that's what these me. instead with their own propaganda, holmes, the nazis presented a romantic and heroic version of war depicting battle as an adventure and death for the fatherland as glorious a vision that would end in the butchery of world war 2. and the holocaust.

decades later came the 2nd u. s. version of all quiet on the western front. this time in color for tv, and starting as paul boy or richard thomas, famous as the fresh faced john boy from wholesome american series. the waltons, the film won an emmy, but had little impact for years after the end of the vietnam war. pacifism wasn't seen as a very radical stage. the seeing had it's, it's a reason maybe why the film didn't get that much international attention. although it's a very good film of food, isn't sandwiched, a furnace issued emotionally bit assumed and often stationed all 3 movies. take liberty with remarks original novel. but only the netflix

version adds a parallel storyline in which german vice chancellor mathias apple maga, played in the film by daniel blue brokers apiece, deal with the french in real life german. right. when you respond the armesis into a conspiracy, turning asbell got gotten into escape, good signs exist again with death house and stout mention. ultimately i don't see a week later after you sign it he, they started the legend of of the back stabbing legend. we call it like he, we, they said we would have won the war. politics betrayed us. he sent, he signed the peace away or he signed this war. we would have won. and, and, and by the end we had betrayed the germination and he was killed. 3 for years afterwards by german nationalists by german terrorists, a by network, by national terrorists. and, and this gave sort of rise to the nazi movement from you. that was important to not only talk about the 1st but the but the bases have this one big conflict that,

that, that arose from the films ending has paul boy are dying and a final pointless assault minutes before the ceasefire. a battle not in the book or in the historical record in boy is a, in the book. he's just a random victim. like so many as it is as has gone. it was on his death is only mentioned in passing in the last sentence that let's, let's do that. that's the laconic meaning of the title. it's all quiet on the western front, but house life ends with as liam from poet. when does the film is denied this by a dramatic and angle? that's not historically accurate. i think the comped is in there. there was no such last battle as a wound, vice is gaap didn't these us, let's the good faith, me. whatever the films, artistic license remarks, core message remains as timeless as this berlin memorial to all victims of armed conflict. the reminder that there are no winners in war. it doesn't matter from which side you you take it from the ukranian russian,

our german french english site. everyone who's involved, ah, is getting destroyed somehow. says you're the senior school. kind of you saying shouldn't i, my sister film cisco void german loves it, puts him in because i put to pci that they faced it up by a use of it . the senselessness of voice seems to be a lesson. humanity still hasn't grasped, considering that in ukraine war continues to rage. and there seems to be no end in sight. making art has become a form of resistance. we spoke with 3 ukrainian artists, ah

. 24th 2022 of russia launched its war of aggression on ukraine such as spatter slough. i could show from the band. oh, can, elsie won't allow that to become another victim of the war? not least because it's key to the cultural identity and cohesion of the country. i cannot continue to survive during your state and how can i help it's a gray winter's day in keith were meeting alone. you're alone. yeah. the people in the famous ukrainian rafa things about everyday life. the new york times named one of the 15 most important euro pop banks. she's

become a voice of her generation and a style icon. the 1st moments of the war, etched in her memory. i was scared because i didn't know what they have to do. nobody teach me what they have to do and work on my country. so it was emptiness and, and scurried about it. he bought it along along his lyrics, a direct, but never aggressive. her message is a progressive one. boy, a little good girl as well. okay. hm. what problem diagnosed with him lawyer? you may i today she's recording at the television studio of ukrainian broadcaster aiyona

ayana commutes between keith, poland and wherever her korea takes her. she's used to crossing borders who is very important that in that number of situation, the branches, it wouldn't have clueless mood and then it's good validity deal. pledge some al yona yona refuses to give up hope, which in the mind this trunk is a plea to the world to pray for ukraine. i said, don't put the ship bill severe. i am happy that in old festivals in all the repairs even be in stages. i see more of ukrainian artist art always help to be to has connection was other, a conscious to all understand us to know something new about us and see that we are creating, ah, she uses music and social media to fight persian and russia's war of aggression all

her songs have a political message and her clear position resonates with audiences, particularly with women. to talk about ukraine. i know that we were when this were this year. and sir, i know that ukraine will be part of europe in ganges. i that will, i am a young a yona is optimistic because she says she has no option to her music as a means of survival and a tool of protest. boy, oh boy, a little girl amid the devastation of war, walls have become a canvas for expressions of resistance. even the world famous graffiti artist banks . he has left his mark here. girls dance around shell holes, children see saw on tank traps. but bank c is just one of many blue noodles and graffiti are

a way of demonstrating against the russian invasion. and as the last year went by, st act began popping up everywhere for all to see these civilian protests, a changing the face of war torn ukrainian cities. a whole generation is at the front. others are going into exile to stay or to go. it's a decision that many are to struggle with, but art can often only survive abroad. awe from cheve, we had to berlin to meet a popular multi media artist from ukraine. deanna, a suze chose to flee. on the 1st day of the war, i didn't want to go anywhere and i think i was also in denial and i just didn't feel like i could go somewhere else and didn't see myself in berlin for example,

but because it wasn't stop in and it was just like escalating all the time, we went to look through hungary to a finally, to berlin. obviously that's a very dark here for all of us now. could say that in my life, that's one of the darkest to says healing of laws feeling of anxiety of disturbance . diana, a sous is a multi disciplinary artist who mixes film music and performance in 2021. she co founded the label standard deviation before the war. keith was a hotspot of the european club scene. as soon as d j to round the city, including at the legendary club, $41.00 experiences like hers or the focus of an electronic music festival in berlin. this kind of thing that other people can kind of perceive as soon as one ukrainian and one

syrian parent. she grew up in both countries to homelands, to was and now immigration. how does this affect her creativity? if you can to be anxious to listen, there was of course, period of time, like, especially the 1st half of these 12 months where i felt i was unable to do anything . but then, you know, there is also a sense of a sort of community and what, because late you this brought ukrainians together ah, at the festival in berlin, deanna a sous shout her 1st video work from exile. it was created with the help of artificial intelligence. the music is by nothing in norry. it's a hypnotic sound collage as dark and threatening as a zeus is wont of images. ah,

the future isn't bright, but those like uh, the whole the, it's the last thing that dies, i guess. so we're still, i think you few are like completely pessimistic or we wouldn't be able to continue to move on and have this like perspective that things can change back in key. we've got an appointment with the ukranian national hero status level vaca chak ah, he's son. obee may has become a kind of national anthem. on the 15th day after the russian invasion, he formed the song amid trouble at the via nona in venice. every kid in ukraine knows that ah,

ah, his perspective has also changed in recent months. it's a mixture of all and broadness of grain and bravery harry isn't folly training soldiers, their brothers and sisters, and also suddenly experiencing this nightmare that you see around the devastations . killing wounded people in the hospitals, all the signs of, of the war in which on the stage in my law i saw

in the problematic situation. i turn to music actually this, this year. i mean, this is the year of music for me. how unusual it sounds for people, but i did, i do a lot of music. we did 175 performances in the front line. we did probably 50 or $6060.00 or dancers in europe and all the countries already and not to come back, often go to the front. he sees and experiences the war 1st hand has been a lot of talk of a political career for him. for the footsteps of his father. he served as minister of education on an impromptu performance on the streets of key. ah, in the thanks of all the horror has he it was thought giving up music. i never lose my faith in music. music is my airplane. actually

a fighting here as something that we do not only for a crane with a i think we do it for the sake of the future of the hall, a free world west of the world. whole world general news. last year the brandenburg gave him berlin. he gave a moving performance in front of an audience of tens of thousands. what's happening in ukraine shows that even in war art plays an invaluable roam where it doesn't just survive. it contrive? oh, that's all for this edition of art on vales. thanks for watching and until next time we ha ah, with

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