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“We’re very grateful for that… it’s a German war movie!”
Luckily, the decision to flip the script was helped by Netflix’s wildly successful expansion into new global markets with recent subtitled hits such as South Korean series “Squid Game” and Oscar-winning film “Roma.” Ironically, the film has been far better received outside of the German-speaking world than it has at home, where many reviewers savaged it.
“I don’t follow it very closely… that’s part of the journalist’s job—to observe, criticize,” shrugged Berger.To encapsulate the “physical difference” between the film’s reception at home and overseas, Berger pointed to one especially harrowing scene toward the end of the movie. By contrast, “in America, you’re used to the hero. You want them to come out positively, and you cling on to the hope that your hero is going to change the world.”In any case, Berger did not sign up out of any sense of patriotic duty. The film and the original anti-war novel are both stridently against jingoism of any stripe.“I’m not a patriot. Germans have a difficult relationship with patriotism, or pride or honor, about their history or country. So I’m not in that business.
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