In those days, when every male who could stand half-way erect was being shipped to… — Gunter Grass
In those days, when every male who could stand half-way erect was being shipped to Verdun to undergo a radical change of posture from the vertical to the eternal horizontal.
In the original German
Was in jenen Zeiten, da man alles nur einigermaßen gerade Gewachsene nach Verdun schickte, um es auf Frankreichs Boden in die ewige Waagrechte zu bringen.
The Tin Drum · 1959
★ 3.5Provenance
Citation
Die Blechtrommel [The Tin Drum]. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff. Franz Seitz Filmproduktion/Bioskop Film, 1959.
