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We recently watched the 2022 movie version, so I thought I would reread the original. Surely that many things couldn't have been changed?
No doubt people will say I'm sexist, ageist and nationalist. But if you're going to film a book set in a 1930s German boy's boarding school, why would you ask a young Swedish woman to direct it?! This just doesn't make sense.
— May 05, 2026 07:05AM
No doubt people will say I'm sexist, ageist and nationalist. But if you're going to film a book set in a 1930s German boy's boarding school, why would you ask a young Swedish woman to direct it?! This just doesn't make sense.
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Germany, 1932. Clashes between rival gangs, kidnappings, book-burnings, but weirdly it's all done in a spirit of fun and even more weirdly it works. Erich Kästner was one smart guy.
— Sep 07, 2015 12:23PM
