Fails the Bechdel test
All Quiet on the Western Front
2022. Directed by Edward Berger, written by Edward Berger and Lesley Paterson and Ian Stokell.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
0 / 3
Fails
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No
1. At least two women
Fewer than two women characters. -
No
2. Who talk to each other
Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other. -
No
3. About something besides a man
Not reached: the film fails an earlier rule.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 0 out of 3.
The film
The story follows teenagers Paul Bäumer and his friends Albert and Müller, who voluntarily enlist in the German army, riding a wave of patriotic fervor that quickly dissipates once they face the brutal realities of life on the front. Paul's preconceptions about the enemy and the rights and wrongs of the conflict soon crumble. However, amid the countdown to armistice, Paul must carry on fighting until the end, with no purpose other than to satisfy the top brass' desire to end the war on a German offensive.
- Released
- 28 Oct 2022
- Genres
- Drama, History, War
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 7.8 / 10
- Metascore
- 76 / 100
- Awards
- Won 4 Oscars. 59 wins & 89 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Paul 136 lines, man
- Kat 122 lines, man
- Kropp 44 lines, man
- Tjaden 44 lines, man
- Lieutenant Hoppe 33 lines, man
- General Friedrichs 32 lines, man
- Erzberger 30 lines, man
- Major Grenier 21 lines, man
- Major Von Brixdorf 16 lines, man
- Sergeant 11 lines, man
Full cast, 56 people
- Felix Kammerer as Paul Bäumer
- Albrecht Schuch as Stanislaus 'Kat' Katczinsky
- Aaron Hilmer as Albert Kropp
- Moritz Klaus as Franz Müller
- Adrian Grünewald as Ludwig Behm
- Edin Hasanović as Tjaden Stackfleet
- Daniel Brühl as Matthias Erzberger
- Thibault de Montalembert as General Ferdinand Foch
- Devid Striesow as General Friedrichs
- Andreas Döhler as Lieutenant Hoppe
- Sebastian Hülk as Major von Brixdorf
- Luc Feit as Staff Surgeon
- Michael Wittenborn as Principal
- Michael Stange as Military Recruiter
- Sascha Nathan as Count von Oberndorff
- Tobias Langhoff as Major General von Winterfeldt
- Anton von Lucke as Captain von Helldorf
- Michael Pitthan as Captain Ernst von Vanselow
- Joe Weintraub as Captain Geyer
- Charles Morillon as Capitaine Paul Lepèrche
- Gabriel Dufay as Major General Maxime Weygand
- Dan Brown as Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss
- Philipp Schenker as Admiral George Hope
- Cyril Dobrý as Butler General Foch
- Gregory Gudgeon as Farmer
- Cyril Čechák as Farm Boy
- Jakob Schmidt as Heinrich Gerber
- Felix von Bredow as Sergeant
- Martin Dostál as Young Recruit
- Marek Simbersky as Gérard Duval
- Jakob Diehl as Sergeant Steinberger
- Friedrich Berger as Walter
- Anthony Paliotti as Major Grenier
- Radek Brodil as French Soldier
- Jonathan Henault as Moreau
- Nico Ehrenteit as Soldier Lemrott
- Hendrik Heutmann as Paramedic Eguisac
- Daniel-Frantisek Kamen as Military Surgeon Eguisac
- Tomáš Čapek as Recruit Eguisac
- Markus Tomczyk as Cookhouse Wallah
- Emil Rothermel as Recruit Kitchen
- Wolf Danny Homann as Military Policeman
- Michal Závodský as Military Policeman Eguisac
- Nicolas Prokop as Deserter
- Jacob Zacharias Eckstein as Soldier Bunker
- Adam Mensdorff as Digging Soldier
- Peter Sikorski as Sergeant Trench
- Alžběta Malá as French Girl 1
- Andrea Zatloukalová as French Girl 2
- Thomas Zielinski as Priest
- Tomáš Weber as Dying Frenchman
- Samuel Neduha as Celebrating Soldier
- Martin Němec as Veteran
- Tomáš Merkl as Young Soldier
- Sebastian Jacques as Butler
- Dominikus Weileder as Der Junge
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 4% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 154
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 5 to 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 to 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 to 16 | 0 | 19 |
| 17 to 20 | 0 | 16 |
| 21 to 24 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 to 28 | 0 | 34 |
| 29 to 32 | 0 | 66 |
| 33 to 36 | 0 | 8 |
| 37 to 40 | 0 | 29 |
| 41 to 44 | 0 | 40 |
| 45 to 48 | 0 | 27 |
| 49 to 52 | 0 | 11 |
| 53 to 56 | 0 | 1 |
| 57 to 60 | 0 | 13 |
| 61 to 64 | 0 | 7 |
| 65 to 68 | 0 | 4 |
| 69 to 72 | 0 | 5 |
| 73 to 76 | 0 | 24 |
| 77 to 80 | 0 | 3 |
| 81 to 84 | 0 | 5 |
| 85 to 88 | 0 | 13 |
| 89 to 92 | 0 | 15 |
| 93 to 96 | 0 | 18 |
| 97 to 100 | 0 | 32 |
| 101 to 104 | 0 | 29 |
| 105 to 108 | 0 | 41 |
| 109 to 112 | 0 | 30 |
| 113 to 116 | 0 | 7 |
| 117 to 120 | 0 | 11 |
| 121 to 124 | 0 | 20 |
| 125 to 128 | 0 | 13 |
| 129 to 132 | 0 | 15 |
| 133 to 136 | 0 | 0 |
| 137 to 140 | 0 | 18 |
| 141 to 144 | 0 | 7 |
| 145 to 148 | 0 | 3 |
| 149 to 152 | 0 | 0 |
| 153 to 154 | 0 | 3 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
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Exhibit A: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 0 are women's.
0 lines from women, 595 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
2 women and 53 men in the cast. 0 women and 37 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
No woman speaks.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 618 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 0% of the words (0), men 100% (5,561).
Exhibit D: the test the other way
Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.
Conversations between two named characters
Two women
0
Two men
55
Exhibit E: behind the camera
5 of the 16 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 34% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Edward Berger (man)
- Written by
- Lesley Paterson (woman), Ian Stokell (man), Edward Berger (man)
- From the novel by
- Erich Maria Remarque (man)
- Produced by
- Edward Berger (man), Daniel Marc Dreifuss (gender not listed), Malte Grunert (man)
- Shot by
- James Friend (man)
- Edited by
- Sven Budelmann (man)
- Music by
- Volker Bertelmann (man)
- Production design by
- Christian M. Goldbeck (man)
- Costumes by
- Lisy Christl (woman)
- Cast by
- Simone Bär (woman), Constance Demontoy (woman), Arwa Salmanova (woman)
The crew, department by department
-
Sound
1 women, 16 men, 6 not listed
-
Art
4 women, 6 men, 5 not listed
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Production
5 women, 5 men, 2 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
8 women, 0 men, 1 not listed
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Visual Effects
2 women, 5 men, 1 not listed
-
Writing
1 women, 3 men
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Other crew
0 women, 2 men, 1 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 1 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Men: 36 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Men
Aaron Hilmer 23, Moritz Klaus 23, Adrian Grünewald 23, Felix Kammerer 27, Edin Hasanović 30, Albrecht Schuch 37, Daniel Brühl 44, Andreas Döhler 48, Devid Striesow 49, Thibault de Montalembert 60
Exhibit G: the money
What it cost and made, where TMDB lists it.
- Budget
- $20 million
- Box office
- Not listed
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 154 scenes and 618 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
