The course of German history in the first half of the 20th century does not make for a pretty picture. It’s wise to keep this in mind when watching Volker Schlöndorff’s masterful adaption of Günther ...

Volker Schlondorff has returned to Cannes with the director's cut of his 1979 Palme d'Or winning classic, "The Tin Drum." By Scott Roxborough, The Associated Press CANNES — German director Volker ...

Blu-ray widescreen and DVD widescreen, 1979, R for violence, graphic nudity, sexually explicit scenes with a young adult, smoking, erotic imagery FOR ANYONE fascinated with the “New German Cinema” of ...

Günter Grass’ The Tin Drum was published in 1959, and for the following two decades it hovered near the top of any sane person’s list of unadaptable novels. Its protagonist, Oskar Matzerath, ...

Disjointed. Chaotic. Haunting. The Tin Drum is a chilling tale that resonates in so many eras of society. Based on the 1959 novel Die Blechtrommel by Günter Grass, Kneehigh's production tells the ...

Oskar gazes with forensic amazement at his family and city, in wonder at the perversities of human behaviour, not least the almost animal lust that drives all those around him. He is tortured by other ...

Our riff on NPR Books' summer series hearing from NPR staff and journalists about the eye-opening books of their youth continues today with Arts Correspondent Lynn Neary. Moving from the family ...

Novelist Günter Grass, the Nobel laureate who is perhaps best known for his novel The Tin Drum and who shocked his country when he revealed in 2006 that he had been a member of the Waffen SS in the ...