"... the first major antiwar film to come out of Germany after World War II, as well as the nation's first postwar film to be widely shown internationally, even securing an Oscar nomination. Set near the end of the conflict, it follows a group of teenage boys in a small town as they contend with everyday matters like school, girls, and parents, before enlisting as soldiers and being forced to defend their home turf in a confused, terrifying battle....

"Danzig, 1924. Oskar Matzerath is born with an intellect beyond his infancy. As he witnesses the hypocrisy of adulthood and the irresponsibility of society, Oskar rejects both, and, on his third birthday, refuses to grow. Caught in a baffling state of perpetual childhood, Oskar lashes out at all he surveys with piercing screams and frantic poundings on his tin drum, while the unheeding, chaotic world marches onward to the madness and folly of World...

The concluding chapter of Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy is the most devastating, a portrait of an obliterated Berlin seen through the eyes of a 12-year old boy. Living in a bombed-out apartment building with his sick father and two older siblings, young Edmund is mostly left to wander unsupervised, getting ensnared in the black market schemes of a group of teenagers and coming under the nefarious influence of a Nazi-sympathizing ex-teacher.

"Immer wieder muss Oma sich über Frieder ärgern. Besonders dann, wenn Frieder wieder einmal einen seiner besonderen Einfälle hat. Wenn er sein Zimmer mit Marmelade rot streichen möchte, den Garten in eine Wüste verwandeln will oder Omas Socken schrumpfen lässt, kann die Oma schimpfen wie ein Rohrspatz. Aber lieb haben sich die beiden trotzdem."--Cover. "Again and again, Oma is annoyed by Frieder. Especially when Frieder once again has one of...