Parents guide

An 11/12 year old boy makes a bet with a girl that if he beats her in a race she has to kiss him. This is referred to once more after he saves her book from being washed away in a river, "does this mean I get a kiss?".

A boy asks a woman if he can take her daughter to school, to which she replies: "and what makes you think you are good enough for my daughter?" He replies "I'm almost twelve".

A boy is seen dead with blood running out of his nose.

A girl punches a boy and hits him on the ground. He is seen with a blood nose. She is spanked on her behind.

A man and woman are beaten to the ground and kicked.

A man vomits into his food.

2 boys fight. One is thrown to the ground with a bloodied lip.

Whilst playing ball in the street, a girl slide-kicks a boy, & he is tumbled; she gets a bloody knee.

A man is bundled into a car and another pushed to the ground.

A truck with soldiers is hit by a bomb and is overturned.

A girl is pushed to the ground a couple of times.

After a city is bombed, dead bodies are seen being taken out of the ruins, and laid out, dressed in sleeping clothes, on rubble in the street.

German Insults are used throughout the film. Saumensch (on it's own) is, in the Swabian dialect, a derogatory swear word, equivalent to "bitch" or "sow". Saukerl is specifically for males, but less sexual, like "brute".

Profanity such as oh god

One use of hell.

Two characters are shouting insults about Adolf Hitler and one of them says, "Hitler has a monkey's a**." It is barely audible.

A man is seen drinking from a bottle.

A person pays someone else with a bottle of champagne.

A girl who loves books has her diary forced out of her hands by an older boy, and thrown into a river of icy waters.

Books are burned by the police in the middle of the street. Later, a house that was full of books, is seen in rubble after a bombing.

Themes of world war.