[00:09.27]Listening:
[00:10.50]Exercise 2 Listen to Part 1 and
[00:13.82]check your guesses for Exercise 1.
[00:17.60]Then listen to Parts 1 and 2.
[00:20.78]Answer these questions.
[00:23.18]Part 1
[00:24.88]The film All Quiet On the Western Front
[00:27.89]was made in 1930 with what was
[00:30.05]then an enormous budget of one
[00:31.92]and a quarter million dollars.
[00:34.19]It was based on the novel
[00:35.66]by Erich Maria Remarque and was the first
[00:38.23]ever anti-war film in the era of sound.
[00:41.84]The film came out only a dozen years
[00:43.55]after the end of the First World War
[00:45.92]and the film reflects the anti-war mood
[00:48.17]of many young people in this period.
[00:50.69]The movie was successful commercially
[00:52.68]and it won Oscars in Hollywood
[00:54.53]for Best Film and Best Director.
[00:57.18]It still remains one of the few early
[00:59.01]sounds films watched by modern audiences.
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