The director of a new version of “All Quiet on the Western Front” said he added the Alpina timepiece to heighten the film’s drama.
An Alpina pocket watch plays a prominent role in a new German-language film adaptation of “All Quiet on the Western Front,” the 1929 World War I novel by Erich Maria Remarque, debuting on Netflix in the United States on Oct. 28.
As a German troop is ordered to the front’s barren wasteland one last time — just 15 minutes before the 11 a.m. armistice was scheduled to begin — the lead character, Paul Bäumer (played by the Austrian actor Felix Kammerer), hears a fellow soldier flip open
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