All Quiet on the Western Front producer expected "more scrutiny" amid book changes

Malte Grunert made the comments at the BAFTAs winners' press conference, after he and Berger were asked if the reaction in their home nation Germany had been as enthusiastic in the UK.

"I think it's been a wonderful warm embrace like everywhere," Berger responded. "The audiences have really watched it on Netflix but also in the cinema, and otherwise, you know it's like everywhere – I didn't feel a big difference. Germany has really embraced the film as much as England."

"And clearly because it's such a canonical book, especially in Germany, we did expect a bit more scrutiny about the changes that we made to the novel," Grunert added. "But in terms of the audience's reception, as Edward said, both in the theatre as well as on Netflix there really isn't any difference to the rest of the world."

All Quiet's total of 14 nominations was the most any film had received at the BAFTAs since The King's Speech managed the same total more than a decade ago, and the film is also up for nine awards at next month's Academy Awards.

And star Felix Kammerer recently told RadioTimes.com that such staggering success had been "the biggest surprise of all".

"We were of course hoping for some nominations at the BAFTAs – we were hoping for maybe a nomination for Best Non-English film," he said during an exclusive interview. "But to have nominations of that vastness, it's really unbelievable."

Additional reporting by Lauren Morris.

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