The Tin Drum

While still in his mother's womb, Oskar Matzerath sees the world as a universal disaster that he doesn't even want to be born into. Only the tin drum promised by his mother for his third birthday gives him an acceptable perspective of survival: a life as an artist. At the age of three, Oscar decided not to grow anymore but to watch and drum. From a frog's eye view, he describes the rise of fascism, combining private history with contemporary history.

The novel by the controversial Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass is still considered a milestone in post-war German literature. Director Oliver Reese tells the story in a version tailored entirely to the main character's perspective.