Günter Grass

Max Frisch was the last big Swiss intellectual widely respected as a “voice” in its own right – a character hardly found today. The film retells Frisch’s story as a witness of the unfolding 20th century, wondering if such “voices” are needed at all, or if we could do without them.

Documentary film.

Winner of a Best Documentary Academy Award, Marcel Ophuls' riveting film details the heinous legacy of the Gestapo head dubbed "The Butcher of Lyon." Responsible for over 4,000 deaths in occupied France during World War II, Barbie would escape--with U.S. help--to South America in 1951, where he lived until a global manhunt led to his 1983 arrest and subsequent trial.

1924년 단찌히에서 오스카가 태어난다. 놀랍도록 조숙한 아기는 독일인과 폴란드인이 섞여 살고 있는 단찌히에서, 독일인인 알프레도와 폴란드인 얀, 두 아버지 사이에서 자라 세번째 생일을 맞던 날 사다리에서 고의적으로 추락, 성장이 정지된다. 오스카는 생일날 선물로 받은 양철북을 두드리면서 나치의 행동을 분열시키는등 끊임없는 소동을 일으킨다. 서커스단 친구들과 함께 연주 여행을 떠난 오스카는 매혹적인 소녀와 사랑에 빠진다. 오스카의 악마적인 요소는 두 아버지와 어머니를 죽음으로 몰고 간다. 어떤 의무로부터도 자유로운 오스카에게도 성과 죽음은 두려운 난제로 다가온다.

In 1966, a former gymnast returns to his hometown Danzig, which is now a part of Poland. He begins to reflect on one of his classmates, Joachim Mahlke, who disappeared during World War II. Mahlke was initially marked as an outsider due to his oversized Adam’s apple, but when he turned out to be a great diver, the in-crowd embraced him. Then he steals a Knight’s Cross from a soldier and is expelled from school. Volunteering for war service, he earns a medal himself and hopes his reputation will be rehabilitated. But the school principal refuses and Mahlke deserts from the army…

Documentary short film in which we see Günther Grass giving conferences, signing books and speaking, among others, with Chancellor Willy Brandt.