Experimental adaptation of Grass' novella One of the first projects of the “Council of Trustees of Youth Cinema”, founded after the Oberhausen manifesto, a film by one of the signatories, based on the second novel of the Danzig trilogy by Gunter Grass. The grown-up Pilentz returns to his childhood through a trip to the city of memories and is present when children dive (and at times dolls) from a rusty submarine in the bay. One of them - erudite at the expense of the warships "Great Malke" (his role is played by the two sons of the future Chancellor Willy Brandt) - takes out the Iron Cross, and soon he himself receives one in the war. A light, jazzy, experimental film about the passage of time after the war, not at all as pompous as the film adaptation of the first part of Grasse’s trilogy – “Tin Drum” by Schlöndorf – although involuntarily lines up with him. Poland is one of those who shot shorts in the French manner even before the manifesto (“Shadow”), then will shoot Edgar Frose from Tangerine Dream, will create the Kraut comedy “Why UFOs Steal Our Salad?” with the star of post-war cinema Hildegard Knef, will change his name to Jason and die during the festival in Cannes – a fate closely intertwined by the nutrial threads of German cinema.
8 out of 10