German Film Festival: The Tin Drum
(Die Blechtrommel)
7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

Directed by Volker Schlöndorff (1981). This is an epic drama about the rise and fall of Nazi Germany as seen through the eyes of a young boy who ceases growing in order to ignore the horrors around him, venting his rage through a toy drum. Winner of the Best Foreign Film Academy Award.