Die Blechtrommel

In the organizer's words:

While still in the womb, Oskar Matzerath recognizes the world as a universal disaster into which he does not want to be born. Only the tin drum promised by his mother for his third birthday offers him an acceptable prospect of survival: a life as an artist. So at the age of three, Oskar decides to stop growing and instead to observe and drum. From the frog's perspective, he describes the rise of fascism, linking private history with contemporary history.

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