The sins of the sons are visited upon the father, as West Germany's Foreign Minister Willy Brandt discovered two years ago, when young Peter Brandt put his signature on a Communist-front petition accusing the U.S. of atrocities in Viet Nam. This time Peter, 18, has teamed up with his young brother, Lars Brandt, 16, to play in a film version of Günter Grass's neo-Gothic novel, Cat and Mouse. The mousetrap is that Lars, as Joachim Mahlke, the adolescent hero of the story, appears in one scene wearing bathing trunks and twirling an Iron Cross,...
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