Directed by Volker Schlondorff. From the Gunter Grass novel. Oscar for best foreign-language film. Format: DVD Color: Color Rating: R Runtime: 142 Year: 1979 Director: Volker Schlondorff
Schlondorff brought a superb cast together to tell the story of Oskar, who ceases to grow beyond his three year old size; a symbolic representation of Germany in the twentieth century. Oskar's mother is courted by a German and a Pole. Gunther Grass's allegorical solution to the wrenching of national borders and ethnic shuffling brought about by World War I is to show the mother, unable to choose between her lovers, choosing them both. One becomes the father of Oskar. Which one? Does it matter? Thus Oskar..