"Telefilmsaar." . . . . . . "Die Rattin" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Die Rättin" . "Then film creates a grandiose doomsday phantasy playing in the narrator's head, accompanied by sarcastic commentaries on the condition of the world of humans by his pet rat, and interspersed by a subplot involving Oskar Matzerath, the hero of the novel The Tin Drum, and his grandmother who reappear in the novel The Rat." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .