The New Yorker

“Amrum” Offers a Child’s-Eye View of Fascism in Retreat (opens in new tab)

In Fatih Akin’s coming-of-age drama, a twelve-year-old German islander witnesses the end of the Second World War from a perilous, momentous remove.

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